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From: bla@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Brad Ahlf)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Re: looking for >32-bit address space [and how will C handle it]
Message-ID: <6310018@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Apr 89 03:48:05 GMT
References: <16568@winchester.mips.COM>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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Viggy Mokkarala writes (an EXCELLENT HP-PA summary):

>I will attempt to answer some of the questions that were raised about HPPA
>during the course of discussion on this topic.

I am very interested in hearing equivalent answers to those same questions 
on some other RISC architectures.  Which are similiar to HP-PA (MIPS?),
which are very different?  Do they have more/less capabilities?  How do 
their compilers and operating systems take advantage of their architectures?  
Ok, maybe not all of that -- but how about answering the same questions 
which Viggy did for a quick comparison?  I know it's a tough act to follow, 
but how about
MIPS, SPARC, PRISM, 88K, ...

Any takers?