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echo: rberrypi
to: GARETH EVANS
from: MICHAEL MORONEY
date: 2020-06-08 04:26:00
subject: Re: OT: DEC Alpha and 64

Gareth Evans  writes:

>I was talking here recently of the possibility of a Dreadnought
>64-bit only language for the RPi, but it seems that I might
>have been pipped at the post by the DEC Alpha.

>As far as I can gather, the Alpha instruction set only
>supported 64 and 32 bit variables.

>Am I misinformed?

EV4 and EV5 Alphas only supported 64 and 32 bit instructions.

EV6 and EV7 Alphas did support 8 and 16 bit instructions.

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