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Re:The x86 architecture is the weirdo, part 2 by cesarb on Friday April 22, 2022 @07:58AM (#31120533)
> Arguably Itanium's failure was due to exceeding the weirdness budget with VLIW nonsense

Being VLIW was probably the least weird part of Itanium. The NaT ("not a thing") bit on every register was the weirdest part and probably the one which tripped people the most. And like SPARC, it had register windows. It also had a pair of stacks instead of a single one, a set of predicate registers (which also had their own register windows), and plenty of other assorted weirdness.

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Re:The x86 architecture is the weirdo, part 2 by monocasa on Friday April 22, 2022 @09:07AM (#31121131)
The advanced loads (sort of software controlled speculative loads) were real goofy too (but neat!)
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Re:The x86 architecture is the weirdo, part 2 by bpye on Friday April 22, 2022 @12:37PM (#31123977)
x86 sort of has two stacks today as a security mitigation https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-kernel-intern...
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