[Info-vax] Dvorak on Itanic

[Paul]

On 2009-01-30 01:27:22 -0600, Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> said:

> Tom Linden schrieb:
> 
>> IIRC this started as an HP poject.  One of Jack Davidson's grad students  got
>> hired by HP ca. 1992 to work on the VLIW arch,
> 
> Is this really true or just an urban legend ?
> I have always suspected the Itanic goes
> back to some weird Prof in (theoretical) computer
> science. Such a person might have thought he (i.e. his students)
> would be brilliant enough to create an indefinitely
> smart compiler which can parallelize just about every
> source code thrown at it.

No, it is absolutely true.  Was to be the replacement for the
HP PA-RISC chip.

-Paul