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[s_j_newbury]

Actually, that happened twice! As I recall:

For x86 CPUs:
L1 cache was introduced with the 80386, it was external. Usually via SRAM...

[s_j_newbury]

Which is back to the 1970s microcomputer designs, including the original IBM PC where the motherboard/CPU card usually contained a small amount of memory,...

[s_j_newbury]

This article is about PCIe 7.0, so are you suggesting consumer 100GbE in a 1x slot? Or Terabit Ethernet? 64GB/s m.2 NVME SSDs? There are already interconnects...

[s_j_newbury]

It's more like an "LTS" version of WINE which receives fixes/hacks to make games work in the Steam library and has various improvements to better...

[s_j_newbury]

Yes, Proton will work, but obviously no DXVK or VKD3D etc which does really limit the utility since WineD3D is very much slower, and will probably be...

[s_j_newbury]

This is a good point. It also makes it much more expensive to engineer the rest of the hardware to accommodate the bandwidth beyond the interconnect...

[s_j_newbury]

I'm wondering if the idea (from the industry) isn't to make an excuse to drop support for "legacy" PCIe on new devices to force upgrade of old...

[s_j_newbury]

This is mostly a thing for people refusing to use an initrd....

[s_j_newbury]

On modern hardware, even if it was only using CPU it surprises me your UI rendering isn't keeping up with your display update frequency. My main machine,...

[s_j_newbury]

Given it does more than VDPAU, full/partial support can mean different things....

[s_j_newbury]

VDPAU is Xlib only, it doesn't even support Xcb, let alone Wayland. It did its job at the time of getting accelerated video working on X11 with NVidia...

[s_j_newbury]

Which is why Firefox loses market share. Post-Netscape, they started out as the alternative browser, at the time against IE, but had to have a compelling...

[s_j_newbury]

Michael link is still broken...

[s_j_newbury]

Pretty much the only valid usecase for a real floppy disk controller/drive today is for system emulation and especially for archival of software. USB...

[s_j_newbury]

The only way to do this would be for an independent individual or team to create specifications from the code and publish those. Nobody who worked in...