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How did the Motorola MC68030 and MC68040 come to have the powerful and expensive CAS2 instruction?
The CAS2 instruction - double compare-and-swap - is an extremely powerful instruction that was coveted for quite awhile (and still is, really) for making lock-free and wait-free data structures - that ...
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