From: already5chosen@yahoo.com   
      
   On Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:46:14 GMT   
   anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) wrote:   
      
   >   
   > Alpha avoids wasting register bits for some idioms by keeping up to 8   
   > bytes in a register in SIMD style (a few years before the wave of SIMD   
   > extensions across the industry), but still provides no direct name for   
   > the individual bytes of a register.   
   >   
      
   According to my understanding, EV4 had no SIMD-style instructions.   
   They were introduced in EV5 (Jan 1995). Which makes it only ~6 months   
   ahead of VIS in UltraSPARC.   
      
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