On Saturday 09 August 2003 00:51, Micha Feigin wrote: > Hyper Threading is an Intel technology that enables one processor to > > > perform two operations at once in a similar manner to SMP (but still > > sharing some resources, which is not the case for SMP). > > > > http://www.intel.com/technology/hyperthread/ > > There is about one line on that site that actuallu hints at what the > processor is doing and it sounds a bit like what mips is doing for quite > some time now, only since x86 commands are more complicated its probably > harder to implement.
Since Intel's have been RISC chips under the hood ever since P2 (and maybe before that), maybe it wasn't that harder. -- Oded ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
