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To: Scumbria who wrote (58891)5/20/1999 12:51:00 AM
From: grok  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572605
 
Re: <Of course, they called it EPIC (not VLIW!) instead of RISC, and that made it a good decision.>

You really should realize by now that IA-64 is not RISC and definitely not VLIW.



To: Scumbria who wrote (58891)5/20/1999 12:59:00 PM
From: Paul Engel  Respond to of 1572605
 
SCUMbria - Re: "After watching several high profile RISC processors fail to take market share away from x86, Intel's management made the brilliant decision to blow off x86 and develop their own RISC CPU. Of course, they called it EPIC (not VLIW!) instead of RISC, and that made it a good decision"

One more illustration that Intel is as adept at marketing as they are in technology development and manufacturing.

Paul


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