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These features debuted way before the 80s, arguably with the exception of out of order execution. Take any feature discussed and its wikipedia history section will tell you about CPUs and computers in the 60s that first had them. Caches, SIMD (called vectors back then), speculative execution, branch prediction, virtual machines, virtual memory, accelerated IO bypassing the CPU... all from the 60s.



Just like everything else in computing. We are still trying to catch up with the Xerox PARC model of live coding, for example.

However just a selected few could touch said hardware and you could buy a very nice house with what they used to cost.




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