I think it goes back further than 1998. Several old systems had special memory locations where the numbers written would then read back changed. The Apollo Guidance computer for instance didn’t have a shift-right or shift-left cpu instruction. They would write data to a specific area of memory that would modify the data to shift bits around.
replyAlthough I’m sure it’s quite different. The cpu and memory hardware is so completely different. And basic bit manipulation is hardly computation.
Duncan Elliott taught my graduate (IIRC) computer architecture course while writing that thesis - we all talked about C-RAM for a while.. And I think it was a rehash of an even older paper / discussion about that idea.
replyI have been reading about this for the last 25 years.
So, yea, in another 25 years "this will be a thing".
replyAge-old... 1998... :grimace:
replyRemember: 1998 is as old now as 1970 was in 1998.
replyI don’t think he was asking you to twist the knife.
replyEh it's okay. It's just that, man, computers were already so well along by 1998, when I hear "age-old" I think like the 60s, 70s, _maybe_ 80s--but 90s?! oh well! I did a few double takes assuming my mind had flipped the 9 and 8 in 98, but no :D.
replyAt this point, "age-old" means "64-bit processors were not the default".
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