Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 16:54:37 06/03/98
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On June 03, 1998 at 19:15:28, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >>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 But they have nothing that looks like VLIW that I have used... they have been simply doing N-way superscalar where N varies... just like IBM, Digital, MIPS, etc..
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