downix wrote:
COnsidering that Itanium is the modern form of the PA-RISC core found
in Commodore's next-gen chipset design, Hombre, this is not such a bad
idea.
Yep, but before playing the heritage card,
DH has said the PA-RISC was only planned as part of the GPU. So better/worse/indifferent, it's more like basing a proverbial WindowsOne on a GeForce4000 than any particular 'logical extension' from 680x0.
What would serve us best would be, as always, a translator (and/or just a port) to a VP-type system, making these issues moot. But VP's featureset isn't quite there yet, and the alternatives suck worse for whatever reasons.
