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I tried it out and it has some issues with my native speech. I grew up with more Taiwan mandarin but I know the Beijing standard and the recognizer was flagging some of my utteranc…

Funny enough when Intel and DEC settled their lawsuit Intel got StrongARM[1] from DEC which was pretty fast for its time. It was a pretty cool, literally, chip that didn't need a h…

The hardware folks at HP were big into the outdoors. The story went that it was named Halfdome but customers outside the US who weren't familiar with Yosemite would ask where the o…

Did the PA-RISC shops run their old PA-RISC code with the Aries emulator? One of the selling points for HP users was running old code via dynamic translation and x86 would just wor…

I lost track of it but HP, as co-architects, had its own compiler team working on it. I think SGI also had efforts to target ia64 as well. But the EPIC (Explicitly Parallel Instruc…

Itanium was compatible with x86. In fact, it booted into x86 mode. Merced, the first implementation had a part of the chip called the IVE, Intel Value Engine, that implemented x86 …

Having briefly worked at HP on the IA64 effort IIRC the PA-RISC chips fabbed at Intel were the side-effect of the Itanium agreement. HP was owed a certain volume of chips and since…

Not to detract form your point, but Itanium's design was to address the code compatibility between generations. You could have code optimized for a wider chip run on a narrower chi…

I find it somewhat ironic that many years ago HP’s PA-RISC chips were fabbed at Intel because contractually they had to supply chips due Itanium not yet taping out. But maybe it wa…

It’s in the Jargon file. Your comment made me remember this bit: Hackers at HP/Apollo (the former Apollo Computers which was swallowed by HP in 1989) have been heard to complain th…

Minor nit. Compound pinyin words shouldn’t use StudlyCaps so it should be “Lujiazui”

Both DEC and HP were pushing for NT. (I interned at dec and worked briefly at HP while both were still pushing Alpha and PA) HP foodnote: HP had this vision of NT at the desktop an…

Iirc MIPS was on the installation CD and possibly what the team used. There was also a pa-risc port that never shipped… https://www.osnews.com/story/139479/windows-nt-and-netware-o…

DEC made fx!32 to allow x86 emulation on alpha only. They didn’t tackle ppc or mips. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FX!32

Cell used the PowerPC isa as did the Xbox 360. Both were designed in the same IBM facility but separated by a floor. IIRC the Xbox team indirectly learned from the Cell team's mist…

I don't remember if the parent article mentioned it but there were also a bunch of things like the predicate bits for predicated execution and I remember trying to gain an advantag…

> Itanium is designed for a machine with three execution units and each instruction pack has up to three instructions, one for each of them. The design was that each bundle had som…

I was at HP pre-Merced tape-out and HP did have a number of simulators available. I worked on a compiler-related team so we were downstream. As for running linux in 32-bit compatib…

飯糰 also come in a Shanghainese variety (粢飯）. They're long and stuffed with a deep fried dough stick 油條, the pork floss, and sugar. As well as a savory variety with mustard greens 榨…

Had fun browsing there twenty years ago after a fellow older tinkerer told me about it. I once managed to get a motherboard for cheap to replace my friend’s “server” that was hosti…

I just upgraded one of my dietpi systems and it has switched to systemd. So far for my light duty it's stayed up.

Wow. I remember a different Xblast. This was a multiplayer Bomberman clone: https://xblast.sourceforge.net

Yes, it did if you're not a mandarin speaker. The simplification process was biased towards Mandarin and there are some words that were merged that have different pronunciations in…

Curious to read the book when it's out. I did work on some IA-64 software some time ago before Merced taped out so I'm interested!

People have mentioned the Dynamo project from HP. But I think you're actually thinking of the Aries project (I worked in a directly adjacent project) that allowed you to run PA-RIS…