I had written.....
>>As a matter of fact, the standard version of merced includes the PA-RISC
>>engine along with an x86 instruction decoder.
To which you replied...
>Uh, no.
>
>The Merced does not do PA-RISC decoding in hardware. Period.
Wrong. I wish I could send you the Internal design papers that I've gone
over myself at HP. It was several years ago, but....
The merced executes PA-RISC instructions natively. It also executes x86
instructions natively. If the chip you get doesn't do one or the other, it's
because that section has been lobotomized for marketing/contract reasons due
to where you get the chip from. The section is still on the silicon
though...
Jay
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