🚀 go-pugleaf

On 21/06/2018 14:36, Dan Espen wrote:
> 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.
> 
  Thanks, can't recall the original sighting but have since been through
both of those pages.

Must we fear the day when Microsoft comes to own the web archive?