I too was puzzled by how I muddled up preemption with instruction restart for paging or virtual memory. I wasn't even drunk.

Yes it did. It had a prefetch buffer added and retained enough state to undo an instruction when it hit a memory fault half way through executing the instruction. I have designed computers using the 68010 that took advantage of that.

Yes. These things bubbled up slowly from my subconscious since earlier today. Years of crypto has ruined my CPU architecture skills.
 

As I remember it, it was an Apollo workstation that used that method.

>a classmate posting something questioning the pre-emptive multitasking capabilities of AmigaOS

Yes. The Amiga ran on a 68000. The 68000 didn't support instruction restart. So you couldn't properly do preemptive multitasking with it. It needed the applications to cooperate with the interruptions. So an application could undermine the preemption. The 68010 fixed this problem. There were also unix based 68000 workstations that had two 68000s, one running a clock cycle behind the other, so the state of the CPU could be rewound and the instruction restarted when necessary.

>isp's were ALREADY under the domain of the fcc.
A very different domain of the FCC.

> obvious repub
Wut? Your brain appears to be broken.

Expectation and reality don't seem to line up a whole lot in my experience.

Net neutrality is good. It is good that big ISPs are subject to it.

However a world in which ISPs are placed within the legal framework of phone companies is bad.

A well written net neutrality law would have been better than the FCC bringing ISPs under their wing.

:retab

No. The answer would be : None

We're a customer of their services. Not an intermediary in their wage negotiations. When all imports can be blocked for weeks, it encourages people to explore local supply options, which is exactly the point.

That and importing stuff is a massive pain in the arse. Between ultra complicated and hard to find tariff rules, longshoremen strikes, highly variable shipping costs, theft of goods and the host country's efforts to put backdoors in products manufactured within its borders, it can be easier to just build it at home.

There are fans that attach to openings in the airguide that suck cold air from within the box and run it over the motherboard and the hot air is then vented out through the back panel. It is pretty quiet. The video card is the loudest thing. I've done water cooling in the past, which is much quieter though and in my next gaming computer I'll probably go for water cooling again.

Yes.

A big box. The sort that holds the MB horizontally with the drives underneath.
A sabertooth motherboard. The sort with the plastic housing the direct the air around the chips and muffle the noise. Why doesn't everyone do that?
A 4 core top end Ivy Bridge i7, 64GB dram.
Dual 500Gig SSD mirrored. In hotplug housing.
Dual 1TB rotating mirrored, for local backup. In hotplug housing.
Some expensive Nvidia card.

Why?
#1 The CPU is the first model with my logic in it. So it's personal. Also employee discount.
#2 I wanted to play 3D games after a hiatus of a few years.
#3 Hotplug housing is awesome. You can pull em out and put em back in again.