[OT] multicore/cpu history

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 26 March 2018 10:06:36 Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 10:02:15 +0000 (UTC), Steven D'Aprano
>
> <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> declaimed the following:
> >Hardware people can probably tell you what it is that CPUs do that
> > FPUs and GPUs don't do. Or specialised Bitcoin mining chips.
> > Whatever it is that they don't do, but CPUs do, is probably a good
> > dividing line between "CPU" and "auxiliary chip".
>
> 	And then... to confuse matters...
>
> 	As I recall, the bootloader on the Raspberry Pi runs on the graphics
> processor, and it sets up the memory image for Linux before passing
> control to the ARM processor.

Does that come with docs on how to change kernels in case the one you are 
running has to be rebooted 2-10 times to get the keyboard/mouse ducks 
all in a row so it doesn't randomly throw away events?
>
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