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Subject: Re: Alpha chip

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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