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?