On Thu, 2 Mar 2023 12:45:50 +1100, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> declaimed the following:
> >As have all CPUs since; it's the only way to implement locks (push the >locking all the way down to the CPU level). > Xerox Sigma (circa 1970): Modify and Test (byte/halfword/word) Granted, that was a "mainframe" system, not a microprocessor. Looks like Intel didn't catch the boat until 1985 and the i386. -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfr...@ix.netcom.com http://wlfraed.microdiversity.freeddns.org/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list