hyper threading.

[John Pettitt]

em1897 at aol.com wrote:

>
> The principles of "modern" controllers are surprisingly similar to those
> of "old" controllers.  The biggest change is that the PC world is only
> now discovering what mainframe designers knew 40 years ago.
>
>
PC Designers knew it 20 years ago.  When I designed the Specialix SI
serial boards (for 286/386 Xenix boxes) they had interrupt throttling
built in (circa 1986/7).  

John