In article <7h9cgs$c862@ftp.kvaerner.com>,
  "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.no> wrote:
> I believe the transputer had special hardware support for
> context switching.
> What it exactly did is something which I don't remember.

The trick on the transputer was that a context switch could
happen only at a jump, and it destroyed all registers, so it
could be extremly fast (faster than a call instruction, which
had to mess with some registers).


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