hi, Jonathan Smith wrote: > > which was > > intel's horrid first attempt at a 64-bit successor to x86.
Well, sorry, but what you call a "horrid" first attempt is the joined effort of PARISC developers at HP and X86 developers at Intel, both with a heritage of over 20 years in CPU design. I think, the idea was to bring the concept of EPIC back to life and use it as an advantage in an emerging competitive market of 64 Bit architectures for the masses. But as i consider, it was ahead of it's time. The people are buying cheap and fast CISC. Instead of investing in expensive and scalable EPIC. Nevermind. good reading on the topic: Hennessy, Patterson ISBN 1-55860-724-2 Mosberger, Eranian ISBN 0-13-061014-3 Alex -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
