[Info-vax] Intel previews new Itanium "Poulson" processor

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In article <mYSdnX_UT8g-LvrQnZ2dnUVZ_sGdnZ2d at earthlink.com>, "John Reagan" <johnrreagan at earthlink.net> writes:
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>"John Wallace" <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message 
>news:2294d28b-7d0e-454c-8771-03f4ae534e52 at o14g2000prb.googlegroups.com...
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>>Is there even an equivalent of the Alpha Architecture Handbook (the
>>freely downloadable one, condensed from the Architecture Reference
>>Manual)?
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>Ian pointed to the downloadable Itanium architecture manuals archive.  They 
>have been public since day-1.  They describe the architecture.
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>The 4 volume architecture is at: 
>http://www.intel.com/design/itanium/manuals/iiasdmanual.htm
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>The manual at: http://www.intel.com/design/itanium2/manuals/251110.htm give 
>the chip level timings, etc.  This answers JF's questions as well.
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>It not be too difficult to imagine an equivalent document being written for 
>Poulson which would be released closer to the actual shipment.
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>The manuals provided by Intel for Itanium are more complete than the Alpha 
>manuals if you want my opinion.  Much of the Alpha implementation timings, 
>etc. were discussed in emails, meetings, etc., but never formalized for 
>customer release.

There are some tables in the instruction set section that benefit from the
downloadable PDF version because they are color.  I have the intel printed
doc set where these tables are gray shades making it difficult to follow.

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