[Info-vax] Three boot camp sessions on YouTube

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-10-12 13:10, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Den 2016-10-12 kl. 13:04, skrev Neil Rieck:
>> For me, the big difference between Alpha and Itanium in those videos was
>> the register count (32 vs. 128).  Having 128 registers may have seemed
>> like a good idea when they were designing that chip, but we all know
>> that an OS is going to require some/all those registers to be
>> periodically saved then restored (well, not all on every interrupt). I
>> wonder if Intel would have implemented 128...
>
> I'm not sure of the timing here, but wasn't the root of the IA64
> arhitecture designed at HP before it was transfered to Intel?

That was one source, yes. Unless I remember wrong, it was a pooling of 
ideas from HP and Intel.

	Johnny

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