Talk:History of general purpose CPUs

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[edit] summarizing

I think the section history of general purpose CPUs#Asynchronous CPUs is a bit long. I've copied all the details to asynchronous circuit#asynchronous CPU. (I suspect that section might grow into a clockless CPU article of its own). Help me reduce that section to a summary. --68.0.124.33 (talk) 01:40, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] history of cache and virtual memory

CPU cache briefly mentions: A historical note: the first virtual memory systems were very slow, because they required an access to the page table (held in main memory) before every programmed access to main memory. With no caches, this effectively cut the speed of the machine in half. The first hardware cache used in a computer system was not actually a data or instruction cache, but rather a TLB.

I think this "history" article should also mention this history of cache and virtual memory. Where to put it? --68.0.124.33 (talk) 01:39, 6 May 2008 (UTC)