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by fasa99 651 days ago
"oh these new-fangled kids what with their superscalar processors. 100 instructions in a cycle, phooey! Back in my day, it was dang gummed 100 cycles for each instruction, and gosh darnit we liked it! Now that was just for the add instruction, a division, well some say they never figured out how many cycles that was because it took too long. I had an onion in my belt which was the style at the time"