Re: Identifying CPU and current OS
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- Subject: Re: Identifying CPU and current OS
- From: Joe <joe@jretrading.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2025 08:54:49 +0100
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On Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:46:48 -0400
Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 01:25:06PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> >The 80-bit, 128-bit, 256-bit, 512-bit and friends are the size of
> >registers in coprocessors, like the x87 math coprocessor, the SSE
> >coprocessor, the AVX coprocessor, etc.
>
> None of those are coprocessors on amd64; x86 hasn't used math
> coprocessors since the late 80s. So this is a matter of choosing to
> ignore parts of the CPU because they don't fit the model. :)
>
What is a GPU today if not a maths co-processor?
Historical note: the first ARM computer was a co-processor for the BBC
Micro.
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Joe
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