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Subject: Re: Is Intel exceptionally unsuccessful as an architecture designer?
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2024 14:15:28 -0400
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On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 19:32:32 -0700, "Chris M. Thomasson"
<chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 9/20/2024 7:28 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
>> It would be HIGHLY local wrt its processing units and its memory for 
>> they would all be one.
>> 
>> The programming for it would not be all that easy... It would be like a 
>> NUMA where a program can divide itself up and run parts of itself on 
>> each slot (aka memory-cpu hybrid unit card if you will). If a program 
>> can be embarrassingly parallel, well that would be great! The Cell 
>> processors comes to mind. But it failed. Shit.
>> 
>> A system with a mother board that has slots for several GPUS (think 
>> crossfire) and slots for memory+CPU units. The kicker is that adding 
>> more memory gives you more cpus...
>> 
>> How crazy is this? Well, on a scale from:
>> 
>> Retarded to Moronic?
>> 
>> Pretty bad? Shit...
>> 
>> Shit man, remember all of the slots in the old Apple IIgs's?
>> 
>> ;^o
>
>Think of the transwarp card for the apple iigs. I think it was called 
>that. It sped up the system for sure.

Had one. It was a CPU accelerator board - not memory.

The Transwarp board provided a fast 65816 and cache. It plugged into a
slot but took only power from the bus. It connected to the system
board via a cable plugged into the original CPU socket.

The original //gs CPU was 2.5MHz.  Transwarp was one of 2 accelerators
that could be purchased, increasing CPU to 6, 8 or 10 MHz.