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Subject: Re: 64-bit machines

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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