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Article #621089Re: BYTE Magazine Pentomino Article
From: J. Clarke
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2018 14:20
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2018 14:20
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On Sun, 4 Mar 2018 03:40:08 -0800 (PST), Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote: >On Saturday, March 3, 2018 at 3:52:07 PM UTC-7, J. Clarke wrote: >> On Sat, 3 Mar 2018 14:18:56 -0800 (PST), Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> >> wrote: > >> >A Pentium II is > >> 20 years obsolete. Why do you believe it's relevant? > >While Intel has certainly made lots of architectural improvements to its >processors, after the detour of the Pentium 4, they did return to a line of >development that goes back to the Pentium II and Pentium Pro. So the processor >in your laptop today is closely related to it. > >And the 360/195 was referred to as a "supercomputer" in its day. I had forgotten that. >But the NEC SX-Aurora Tsubasa is a *vector* processor, analogous to (but more >powerful than) the Cray I. Yes, it does maybe *half* the flops of a good video >card, but the programming flexibility is much greater, making that power much >more usable. Look up SSE and AVX. Intel processors are *vector* processors. So is a good video card.
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