On Wed, 19 Nov 1997 13:09:42 -0700, Glenn Cole wrote: |Glenn asks: |> Is IA-64 the same as PA-8000? | |Gavin gives the simple answer: |> No. | |So, let's make the question a bit tougher. ;) | |Is IA-64 a superset of PA-8000? The folks at Allegro (or whatever name they're using today :) are not being overly helpful this time, are they? ;) IA-64 is the first chip which will be (is being?) produced as a result HP and Intel's joint effort to develop a successor to both the HP-PA and x86 processor lines. I believe it has been known as the Merced processor, but these days IA-64 is the name generally used for it. One of the things I think I know about it (meaning that I'm not sure of it) is that it will have a completely new instruction set. It's expected to be able to emulate HP-PA and x86 instructions at speeds comparable to native execution on the native processors in the same way that HP-PA boxes could execute classic (CM) 3000 code at speeds even faster than the old classic boxes could achieve. -- Jeff Woods [log in to unmask] at Unison Software [log in to unmask] at home [PGP key available here via finger] "Lobbyists, n. pl., Political lounge lizards who practice their seductive arts in the halls of Congress" -- from "The Cynic's Dictionary" by Rick Bayan