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Jecel said...

Like Keith, I immediately thought of the Z80. But since the PC and other parts of the state aren't also duplicated it is more like the register switching on the ARM than the original idea. What is like the original idea is the multithreading that became popular starting with the Pentium 4.

Oct 23, 2019, 12:46:01 PM

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