Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 14:15:20 02/08/03
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On February 07, 2003 at 23:29:42, Robert Hyatt wrote: >Go back 30 years to the HP 2100 micro-programmable machine. The >micro-instructions were similar in concept with the IA64 in a gross way, >yet we had students programming that machine with no problems. It is different. >It requires a bit of "new thinking". But multiple instruction parcels in a >single long word is not _that_ bad... It's not just multiple instructions in one word. Have you done any IA-64 programming yourself or talked with someone who has? Because everybody I know who has has one thing to say about it: it's such a pain that you shouldn't bother trying. -Tom
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