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To: Elmer who wrote (129882)12/19/2000 6:46:24 PM
From: Cirruslvr  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1570451
 
Elmer - RE: "You might want to take a look at the discussion about Foster over on the Intel thread. There might be something very interesting about Foster that Intel's still keeping secret...."

You posted a link from The Register some time ago to a powerpoint file at Intel's site that said Foster would have multitreading capability (Jackson Technology) and I responded to that one.

Message 14415114

Now I REALLY wonder if Willy has it also, and if it is not activated or something.



To: Elmer who wrote (129882)12/19/2000 11:16:57 PM
From: Dan3  Respond to of 1570451
 
Re: You might want to take a look at the discussion about Foster over on the Intel thread. There might be something very interesting about Foster that Intel's still keeping secret....

Yes, that's just what the Willamette core needs, another layer of abstraction for the decode units to increase latency, and something to make it fussier about code that hasn't been optimized for it.

:-)

Dan


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