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		dbenhur on Feb 26, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Microsoft is this the Altair Basic of? When the p-System came out cpu caches were not yet a thing. Main memory was fast enough to match cpu speeds. Your cache was your register set.

kragen on Feb 26, 2015 [–]

CPU caches were not a thing on microcomputers. The 360 Model 85 had a CPU cache in 1968.

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