[Pc_Support] Intel's Continued Marketing Evolution

[Damien McKenna]

> My latest blog entry:  
> http://thebs413.blogspot.com/2005/08/intels-continued-marketin
> g-evolution.html

The I/O processor is a huge leap in the right direction.  My first real
computer, an Amiga A500, had an entire 3-or-4 chip chipset designed to
take the load off the CPU, something that the big-nobs still haven't
matched, some twenty years later.  As you've mentioned, if you've got
support chips, even low-performance ones, its amazing how much real
performance is left in your CPU when it isn't constantly doing IRQs and
other junk.

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