Did You Know...
...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8316216 | Implementing vector memory operations In one embodiment, the present invention includes an apparatus having a register file to store vector data, an address generator coupled to the register file to generate addresses for a vector memory operation, and a controller to generate an output slice from one o... | 11/20/2012 |
| 7627735 | Implementing vector memory operations In one embodiment, the present invention includes an apparatus having a register file to store vector data, an address generator coupled to the register file to generate addresses for a vector memory operation, and a controller to generate an output slice from one o... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7558920 | Apparatus and method for partitioning a shared cache of a chip multi-processor A method and apparatus for partitioning a shared cache of a chip multi-processor are described. In one embodiment, the method includes a request of a cache block from system memory if a cache miss within a shared cache is detected according to a received request fro... | 07/07/2009 |
| 5758142 | Trainable apparatus for predicting instruction outcomes in pipelined processors A predictor which chooses between two or more predictors is described. The predictor includes a first component predictor which operates according to a first algorithm to produce a prediction of an action and a second component predictor which operates ac... | 05/26/1998 |
