Talk:PA-RISC family

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influence of technology in pa risc

[edit] Innovation?

The article says "An interesting aspect of the PA-RISC line is that most of its generations have no Level 2 cache. [...] Another innovation of the PA-RISC was the addition of multimedia instructions (SIMD) in the form of MAX which were first introduced on the 7100LC" (emphasis added). Does omitting the L2 cache really qualify as an innovation?

Perhaps... if you have a large on-chip L1 cache instead. --StuartBrady 20:52, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] more info...

there's a lot of technical info here about the chips themselves, which is good, but i'd like to see more info about their application. what sorts of computers have they been put in? what have those computers been used for? what are the alleged benefits or draw-backs of these processors as opposed to the more standard intel/amd x86 variety?

[edit] After PA-RISC?

I wonder how the current HP-UX population is responding to HP's decision to drop PA and move HP-UX to Itanium. Are many people following HP's lead? Of the 15 or so former PA-RISC shops I know, most have migrated to Linux on x86, AIX, or Solaris. At lest one has not decided what to do next, but no one I know has committed to Itanium. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.41.168.42 (talk) 14:23, 16 September 2007 (UTC)