Mario MultoFredo

So here we were circa 1996, the whole architecture team still working on the Dolphin definition, and I felt pretty much annoyed.

" Why do i have to listen to this guy as we are late | confused | living in hippie land and .. what the heck.. I have to listen to another croonie and ..what the heck should I care for another CA (Computer Architecture)   technique which look like the others, miles ahead of any embedded implementation"

At this stage I was still very DSP centric and little did I know that 5 years later I would push for Tricore next gen. to use Multithreading (MT). {this is another story}
Anyway, we all listened very patiently and at the end of the meeting Bruce told me

" this is Mario! nobody listened to him at NS, and since he did a thesis on MT, he is pushing it all over the valley"

Well! we went to other better greater things and filed MT under nice to know. Not surprisingly, MT was not seen or heard in any embedded architecture (ARM, MIPS, PPC, SH,etc..) at the time,  let alone DSP, but instead it re-appeared in a Network Processor (NPU).
Circa 2000 Clearspeed presented their NPU at Hot Chips (or maybe Microprocessor Forum) and here you have guessed Mario in the center of the arena. In a way it was satisfying to see that any gifted and focused architect always find the way to push his baby...{not sure about that, mind you}