[rescue] Wanted: Old Sun Hardware

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Wed Oct 14 09:16:52 CDT 2009


On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:01:34AM -0400, Patrick Finnegan wrote:

>Since UltraSPARC-V never came out, Sun's SPARC line never had out-of-
>order execution.

Didn't the CDC 6600 (late 1960's) have it? I used a 6400 circa 1971, but that
was the "poor man's" single threaded machine.

Besides, weren't there many versions of GCC which provided out of order 
execution with the wrong settings of the optiumization flag?

Oh, you meant on purpose. :-)

Geoff.

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