Intel to Discontinue Itanium 9700 ‘Kittson’ Processor, the Last of the Itaniums

Re:Intel to Discontinue Itanium 9700 ‘Kittson’ Processor, th... by bogomipz on Saturday February 02, 2019 @06:25PM (#19066546)

I don't know a lot about PA-RISC, can you what was it about that ISA differentiated it?

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Re:Intel to Discontinue Itanium 9700 ‘Kittson’ Processor, th... by spamizbad on Sunday February 03, 2019 @11:09AM (#19070349)

It didn’t get hung up on RISC purity and introduced a series of instructions that kept code sizes down: single instruction Indexed Loads (normal and scaled), single instruction Address updates, bitfield operations, FMADD, subword operations (making decimal math ops faster), a bunch of branch path instructions and a handfull of others.

It had 32 64bit FP registers that could also be used as 64 32bit registers or 16 128bit registers. For the time this was novel.

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