viburnum 6 years ago

A few years ago there was an article like this about an old computer on HN that mentioned France's complicated railway workers pension system. Anybody have a link to that? It was super interesting.

slededit 6 years ago

Its interesting they essentially passed all memory reads through a barrel shifter right in the critical path. This would have been a huge performance bottleneck had the platform survived.

It is very flexible, but... costly.