It was written.... > Also, recall that Intel > launched Merced development when the idea was "bigger/faster > is better
Keep in mind that the merced chip was not really designed or created by Intel at all. 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. As a matter of fact, the standard version of merced includes the PA-RISC engine along with an x86 instruction decoder. The original (possibly still) plan was that the consumer merced versions would have the PA-RISC section lobotomized (remember 486DX vs. SX? nothing was missing on the chip, it was just disabled) and only the HP shipped ones would have PA-RISC turned on. This is is why the merced chips would be able to run either HP-UX or WindowsNT in HP's 9000 series stuff. Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
