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stmw
84 days ago
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The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)
Fun fact - Linus first trip to the United States was related to Linux-on-Alpha port and sponsored by Digital Equipment Corporation.
synack
84 days ago
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The Alpha CPUs didn’t implement the div instruction and Linus’ assembly version was faster than DEC’s in some cases.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux...
stmw
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That's nice. (Not uncommon in early RISC, (e.g. PowerPC had some similar limitations for 64 bit ints), and various assembly fun ensued).
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