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Wow, really? Cool! The 29K was a really cool architecture and I’m sorry it didn’t make it. AMD’s pathetic marketing of the time couldn’t even beat MIPS’ terr
by gumby 3y ago
Wow, really? Cool!
The 29K was a really cool architecture and I’m sorry it didn’t make it. AMD’s pathetic marketing of the time couldn’t even beat MIPS’ terrible marketing, plus MIPS had SGI (and later SGI had MIPS).
- p_l 3y agoFunnily enough, new AMD29050 are still being made (maybe even with further development) by Honeywell - they form the basis of their range of avionics computers like Flight Management Systems etc.
- inkyoto 3y agoThe 29k was a pretty rad architecture, indeed. The CPU register file had 128 local registers and more than 64 global registers as well as two program counters, to start off with. Local registers could also be accessed indirectly. At a time of the register starved mainstream x86 architecture, it felt like rolling in gold and shrieking like a little piglet in ecstasy.