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The interesting thing that I discovered within the last year is that AMD also sold a processor very similar to SPARC, the 29000 (AMD 29k). This was a descenden
by chasil 3y ago
The interesting thing that I discovered within the last year is that AMD also sold a processor very similar to SPARC, the 29000 (AMD 29k).
This was a descendent of the Berkeley RISC, and it had register windows in what might be a more advanced design.
As far as I know, it was used in the AMD K5 x86 CPU as the backend behind an x86 translation layer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Am29000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Am29000
- hasheddan 3y agoI actually recently interviewed one of the folks (Philip Freidin) who worked on the 29k. Clip of Philip describing AMD 29k: https://youtu.be/I5cYxLg7Vfc https://youtu.be/I5cYxLg7Vfc Full Episode: https://microarch.club/episodes/1/ https://microarch.club/episodes/1/ Previous HN Post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39452960 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39452960
- chasil 3y agoI'll grab that one too, thanks!