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Comment by brcmthrowaway

6 hours ago

Random q: What was the first cpu to support atomic instructions?

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jeffbee  6 hours ago

I don't know but the IBM 360 and the DEC PDP-10 both had them. Those are the earliest systems I ever saw.

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