[rescue] SGI, MIPS, and IA-64

[George Adkins]

On Friday 15 February 2002 06:26 pm, you wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 05:28:29PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> >>I think the bundles are cool (a bundle has 3 41bit instructions in them,
> >> which are guaranteed to execute simultaneously, to my understanding),
> >> plus for the most part it looks like IA-64 can execute 2 bundles at once
> >> (meaning 6 parallel instructions).
> >
> >   Wow, six whole instructions...one more than the (several year old)
> > MIPS R10K.  Isn't Intel wonderful?
>
> Err, the R10k only has 5 execution units.  I'm assuming that they operate
> in parallel, but I can't seem to find any sources that say this explicitly.
>

Err, " six whole instructions" minus 5 =  "one more than the (several year 
old) MIPS R10K.", Right?

or did I do the math wrong?

George