[Info-vax] BOINC for VMS

seasoned_geek roland at logikalsolutions.com
Fri Mar 30 11:30:11 EDT 2012


On Mar 12, 8:21 pm, Neil Rieck <n.ri... at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Okay so here are a few more questions (based upon coffee  discussions today):
>
> 1) MVI first appears in EV56 which is early to mid 1996. According to the doc archives at Intel, MMX appears in Pentium in mid-1997 (although wikipedia says 1996). Did Intel borrow the idea from Compaq or was this just a coincidence?
>
> 2) Are there any SIMD instructions in Itanium?
>
> Neil Rieck
> Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge,
> Ontario, Canada.http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/

Intel stole everything they could from the Alpha when they were second
source.



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