From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: AMD processors and assembly language Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/ Message-ID: References: <01JMWIIY2ZT69ASSJ4 AT SLU DOT EDU> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 38 X-Trace: /b4C/DGc69hqT00bskeexkyf/8udDa5TruzUvG4HBJrk8/JsNzV6Ru7RgyH2G2Fd35GgOVFEb6VT!ln8ksTjoFmN4ubzjb3fVa+WEWaXgSK1PQ0tk6Sv4/S23UhUk2KfGeu0Z9KQNPj7t40RU1TZCyTXM!yQPPQAo= X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 18:04:44 GMT Distribution: world Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 18:04:44 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Sat, 11 Mar 2000 10:22:23 -0600 (CST), GAMMELJL AT SLU DOT EDU wrote: > In high precision arithmetic, the assembly language commands >mul, div, and adc are essential. In the 486 architecture, these >commands are efficient. In the alpha architecture, they do not exist. WTF? Compaq's Alpha doesn't have multiply, divide, and add? > AMD's 64-bit processors will follow the 486 architecture. Intel's >will follow the alpha architecture. No. The IA64 Merced Itanium chip is not a clone of the Alpha chip. >As far as I am concerned, the AMD processor (code name sledgehammer) >will be the processor of the future. The Intel processor (code name >Itanium ?) is, unfortunately, not the processor of the future. IA64 is a VLIW (very long instruction word) instruction set that uses three execution units. Each instruction is 128 bits long: 5 bits: control 41 bits: instruction to be sent to processor A 41 bits: instruction to be sent to processor B 41 bits: instruction to be sent to processor C >I am willing to donate genprec to djgpp (or delorie.com) if anyone >is interested. That'd be great! Put it up on Simtel and tell DJ about it. -- Damian Yerrick http://yerricde.tripod.com/ Comment on story ideas: http://home1.gte.net/frodo/quickjot.html AOL is sucks! Find out why: http://anti-aol.org/faqs/aas/ View full sig: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html This is McAfee VirusScan. Add these two lines to your .sig to prevent the spread of .sig viruses. http://www.mcafee.com/