From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 27 5:51:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.tseinc.com (gatekeeper.tseinc.com [209.83.134.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0F7814DAE; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 05:51:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jlwest@tseinc.com) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by gatekeeper.tseinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA25736; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 07:49:47 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jlwest@tseinc.com) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.tseinc.com: nobody set sender to using -f Received: from ws2.tse.com(192.168.2.212) by gatekeeper.tseinc.com via smap (V2.1) id xma025734; Fri, 27 Aug 99 07:49:41 -0500 Message-ID: <000e01bef08b$3d606340$d402a8c0@ws2.tse.com> From: "Jay West" To: , Subject: Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? Intel? - NOT Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 07:54:02 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It was written.... > Also, recall that Intel > launched Merced development when the idea was "bigger/faster > is better Keep in mind that the merced chip was not really designed or created by Intel at all. It was created almost completely by HP (by the same group responsible for PA-RISC), with Intel as merely the production facilities. For obvious marketing, competitive, and resource reasons both HP and Intel share the rights to merced. As a matter of fact, the standard version of merced includes the PA-RISC engine along with an x86 instruction decoder. The original (possibly still) plan was that the consumer merced versions would have the PA-RISC section lobotomized (remember 486DX vs. SX? nothing was missing on the chip, it was just disabled) and only the HP shipped ones would have PA-RISC turned on. This is is why the merced chips would be able to run either HP-UX or WindowsNT in HP's 9000 series stuff. Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message