On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 14:11, Scott Courtney wrote: > I haven't gotten my hands on the Itanium (what a dorky name!) architecture > manual yet, but I'm curious to see what Intel came up with when they started > with a clean slate.
The core design is from HP and it shows - Itanic is much more like a super-parisc machine than an x86, although it does support hardware x86 back compatibility.