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Gareth's Downstairs Computer
<headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> writes:

> Having cut my teeth on the DEC computers (PDP8/E used as
> the basis of many aspects of 3rd year electronics at
> Essex Uni in 1972 and then 10 years as an assembly
> language programmer on PDP11s in real-time embedded
> applications), that basic understanding of fundamental
> instruction set operation has stood me in good stead
> for nearly 50 years, but times change.
>
> Although the essence of programs remains, as it
> always will, in such instructions operating on
> a user's data, what has developed around it in the
> areas of cacheing, pipelining and parallel execution
> has never really figured in my program designs, although
> much appreciated in the speed of computation that was on
> offer.
>
> Today, I became aware of the Microsoft E2 EDGE development
> making me feel as though I could be the prototypical
> Rip Van Winkle in the world of computing; a dinosaur
> from yesteryear to accompany the PDP8 that wsa in the
> Brit Science Museum as long ago as 1999!  :-)

This is one of those cases where links would help:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160428161757/http://research.microsoft.com:80/en-us/projects/e2

(deleted page from Microsoft Research’s website)

Referring article here:

https://fossbytes.com/microsoft-linux-windows-10-e2-edge-cpu/

  Microsoft has called E2 “a research project, and there are currently
  no plans to productize it.”

Not sure this will help.  I tihnk Z/Architecture has a few instructions
along these lines.  I don't believe they are actually in use
anywhere.

-- 
Dan Espen