Re: is Vax addressing sane today

On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 14:35:40 +0000, Michael S wrote:

On Sun, 06 Oct 2024 14:03:59 GMT
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) wrote:
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Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> writes:

On Sun, 06 Oct 2024 08:40:55 GMT
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) wrote:
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AMD are easily provable culprits in this scam: They call their
micro-ops "ROPs", for RISC ops.
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Wasn't the term invented by Nexgen for Nx586 and later adapted by AMD
after they scrapped their home brewed core in favor of Nexgen's core
that later became know as AMD K6?

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Easily possible.  AMD may not have been the original culprit, but they
continued this terminology, and therefore are just as guilty.
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- anton

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To their defense, AMD's use of the term ROP didn't last for long.
K8 manuals use the better term micro-ops. I don't have K7 manual to
look, but it seems to me that it uses the same terminology as K8.

K9 used the terms micro-ops and meso-ops to describe before and
after peephole optimization. HW was happy to run either as micro-
ops were a strict subset of meso-ops, meso-ops just got more work
done per cycle.