From: terje.mathisen@tmsw.no   
      
   Michael S wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   The original (v1?) Alpha had instructions intending to make it "easy" to   
   process character data in 8-byte chunks inside a register.   
      
   Terje   
      
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