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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Chipsandcheese article on the CDC6600
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 00:17:37 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 23 Jul 2024 13:20:21 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>>On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 15:09:22 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>>
>>> Basically, the hardware would modify the branch opcode in memory after
>>> every branch to track the last two taken/not-taken states.
>>
>>Did the Burroughs share code between processes/threads?
> 
> Large systems (B6500 descendents) was multithreaded from the start.

Not quite what I asked. I was wondering how those code patches would 
impact on shared code.