Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 16:12:54 +1100 From: Patryk Zadarnowski <patrykz@ilion.eu.org> To: Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Steve Ames <steve@virtual-voodoo.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64bit OS? Message-ID: <200002180512.QAA24862@mycenae.ilion.eu.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Feb 2000 23:53:46 CDT." <Pine.LNX.4.05.10002172351450.3635-100000@jason.argos.org>
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> > > 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
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