From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 17 21:13:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mycenae.ilion.eu.org (mycenae.ilion.eu.org [203.35.206.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78D9C37B957; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 21:13:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from patrykz@ilion.eu.org) Received: from mycenae.ilion.eu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mycenae.ilion.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA24862; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 16:12:56 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from patrykz@mycenae.ilion.eu.org) Message-Id: <200002180512.QAA24862@mycenae.ilion.eu.org> To: Mike Nowlin Cc: Mike Smith , Steve Kargl , Steve Ames , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64bit OS? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 17 Feb 2000 23:53:46 CDT." Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 16:12:54 +1100 From: Patryk Zadarnowski Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > What can one say to that, apart from "I have one right here and it works > > just fine" - not something you can say about the IA-64. 8) > > I'll just reach down and pat my trusty pair of manufactured-in-1993 Alpha > 3000's on their heads... :) > > Oh, forgot... It's not new until Intel does it... sorry... > > mike You're being just plain silly. It takes about 5 minutes with the manuals to realize just how little AXP and IA-64 have in common: one is a classic superscalar out-of-order design, the other is just about the opposite: a typical explicit-ILP architecture. What makes IA-64 great is the 8 years of statistical analysis of real-life software the architecture design team spent fine-tuning the instruction set. What makes AXP great is the clock rates Digital/Compaq manages to pump into the beasts ;) And no, there's nothing fundamentally new in IA-64 apart from the fact that they're the last kids on the block with a 64 bit chip ;) Pat. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message