Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 16:15:28 06/03/98
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>And that's not as big a problem as the "next generation" VLIW machine. >Which is, by definition, incompatible with the current generation, >because >you go from VLIW to VVLIW to get more performance, and now there is no >compatibility... compare this to the X86 architecture that will run >anything and act somewhat like a VLIW architecture without the >incompatibility >issue... Not true. HP had an instruction set that scaled fine with the number of processors almost 5 years ago. IA64 is similar. Cheers, Tom
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