> [The Pentium II] was the first processor (I knew of) to have completely documented post-RISC features such as dynamic execution, out of order execution and re

> [The Pentium II] was the first processor (I knew of) to have completely documented post-RISC features such as dynamic execution, out of order execution and retirement. (PA-RISC predated it as far as implementing the technology, however; I am suspicious that HP told Intel to either work with them on Merced, or be sued up the wazoo.) With some hindsight available now, does anybody know if there is something to this suspicion? Intel being far less enthusiastic about Itanium than HP did look weird to me. Then again, that was years later when Itanium was actually available and nobody except HP showed any interest in using them.