April 2003
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
15h 13m
English
Previous chapters of this book have steadfastly focused on Itanium architecture, with only the occasional clarification about details of implementation, where necessary. As long as the architecture does not change, the material you have learned should remain applicable to new implementations.
We now illustrate the factors influencing the evolution of implementations of computer architectures by comparing features and characteristics of the original Itanium processor to the more widely known Itanium 2 processor.
Table 13-1 compares the first Itanium processor and the Itanium 2 processor along several key dimensions. We will not define or discuss every entry in this ...