Aaron Spink (aaronspink.delete@this.notearthlink.net) on November 19, 2014 10:22 am wrote:
> Doug S (foo.delete@this.bar.bar) on November 17, 2014 2:00 pm wrote:
> >
> > That's interesting information, I'd never really heard how
> > similar PA-3.0 was, other than knowing it was VLIW,
> > so I assumed it was similar. Figures Intel would add the kitchen sink once they got their hands on it!
> >
>
> Its probably worth pointing out that the ISA Intel was going to go with before
> the fiasco with HP was basically a clean very streamlined very Alpha like ISA.
> Both would of probably been better off if they never got together!
>

A clean streamlined ISA from Intel??? It's hard to imagine such a thing is possible.
Was this ever published?

And do we have any reason to believe it would have made it to manufacturing without having been destroyed along the way by the same process that destroyed IA-64 (basically "could someone copy that way of doing things? Yes? OK, then, change it to some alternative that's so complicated no-one could every copy it" repeated thirty times.)