Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 09:32:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: jlwest@tseinc.com, szoli@netvisor.hu Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? Intel? - NOT Message-ID: <199908271332.JAA37041@lakes.dignus.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9908271556350.9830-100000@linux.intranet.netvisor.hu>
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> On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Jay West wrote: > > > Keep in mind that the merced chip was not really designed or created by > > Intel at all. > >=20 > > It was created almost completely by HP (by the same group responsible for > > PA-RISC), with Intel as merely the production facilities. For obvious > > marketing, competitive, and resource reasons both HP and Intel share the > > rights to merced. > >=20 > Does that mean that Merced is heir of the PA-RISC design just like PowerPC > is the heir of IBM POWER processor family's? > Not actually - I understand that many people who worked on PA-RISC worked on the initial Merced design. But, the instruction sets/implementation are totally different. Merced can run PA-RISC and IA32 instructions via mode bits on the chip. It's not transparent. - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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