Sources on RISC and VLIW
There are many sources of 1990s RISC and VLIW computer architectures, which nowadays hide in various archives and mirror. Conference presentations from vendors and papers from proceedings are a valuable source of information on microprocessors of that time, especially long-forgotton obscure RISC and VLIW platforms.
COMPCON Conference
Much PA-RISC history was presented at COMPCON conferences and many interesting articles hide in the digests of Intellectual Leverage for the Information Society conferences on the RISC era of the 1980s and 1990s. These articles would be welcome additions to OpenPA information on PA-RISC.
- COMPCON 1982 High technology in the Information Industry
- COMPCON 1983 Intellectual Leverage for Information Technology
- COMPCON 1984 Intellectual Leverage for Driving Technologies
- COMPCON 1985 Technological Leverage
- COMPCON 1986 Digest of Papers
- COMPCON 1987 Intellectual Leverage
- COMPCON 1988 Intellectual Leverage
- COMPCON 1989 Intellectual Leverage
- COMPCON 1990 Intellectual Leverage
- COMPCON 1991 Intellectual Leverage
- COMPCON 1992 Intellectual Leverage
- COMPCON 1993 Intellectual Leverage
- COMPCON 1994 Intellectual Leverage
- COMPCON 1995 Technologies for the Information Highway
- COMPCON 1996 Technologies for the Information Highway
- COMPCON 1997 Technologies for the Information Highway
- COMPCON 1998 Digest of Papers
- COMPCON 1999 Digest of Papers
We are looking for surplus hardcopies of COMPCON digests for our RISC archive.
HOT CHIPS Conference
HOT CHIPS is an IEEE conference on microprocessors and microcomputers, organized yearly since 1989. Almost all cutting edge RISC and computer architectures of the 1990s were presented at HOT CHIPS over the years, and interesting PA-RISC information can be found at the conference in HP presentations between 1991 and 1999.
- HOT CHIPS 1 ’89: SPARC, 88k, MIPS R4000, Clipper, Intel i860, RISC FPUs, Motorola 68040, Intel i486, Graphics coprocessors
- HOT CHIPS 2 ’90: SPARC, MIPS R6000, SPEC, Intel i960, graphics, FPUs, VLIW, Clipper, IBM RS/6000 and POWER
- HOT CHIPS 3 ’91: SuperSPARC, MIPS R4000, PA-RISC, VLIW, i860, GaA, DSP
- HOT CHIPS 4 ’92: DEC Alpha, PA-RISC, SPARC, ARM, PCI, APIC, vector, Intel P5
- HOT CHIPS 5 ’93: Integrated RISC: Alpha 21066, PA-7100LC, integrated graphics, video processors, ARM, PowerPC 601, SGI, ECL
- HOT CHIPS 6 ’94: Multimedia and video, Alpha 21164, SMP, encryption, Intel i960 and Pentium 100, SH-II, PCI chipsets, PowerPC 604, Motorola 68060
- HOT CHIPS 7 ’95: Embedded, AMD 29000, MIPS, Pentium Pro, AMD K6, Cyrix x86, SPARC64, PA-8000,
Competing Architectures in an x86 World Order
, MPEG and graphics hardware, parallel and vector processing, UltraSPARC, MIPS R10000, PowerPC - HOT CHIPS 8 ’96: HP PA-8000, DEC 21164, IBM Orca, compilers, DRAMs, ARM, Java, Intel MMX, VLIW multimedia, Permedia and GLINT, S3 Virge
- HOT CHIPS 9 ’97: Research, Intel 440LX, Digital FX!32, Java, MAX-2,
If **I** Were Defining Merced
SH4, StrongARM, media and 3D, UltraSparc IIi, Pentium II, PowerPC - HOT CHIPS 10 ’98: Alpha 21264, UltraSPARC-III, PA-8500, embedded, IBM S/390, SGI SV1, MPEG and digital TV, VLIW multimedia, 3D accelerators, Intel i740, Permedia 3, AMD 3DNow! and K6-2
- HOT CHIPS 11 ’99: DSPs, IA64 and Itanium, PowerPC Pulsar, parallel, POWER4, graphics and VLIW, embedded, ARM,
Information Appliances in the Home
, AMD K7 northbridge, VMware, Ethernet, Intel Streaming SIMD (SSE), Sun MAJC
Websites
Informational resources on RISC laptops, processors and VLIW architectures:
- RISCy BUSINESS, Floodgap Systems, Cameron Kaiser (2020)
- General vintage computing project, Old VCR, Cameron Kaiser (2022)
- Code Morphing and VLIW: History, CSMC411, University of Maryland (2001)
- VLIW: The Wave of the Future?, Microprocessor Report (1994, Vol. 8 No. 2)
- Philips Hopes to Displace DSPs with VLIW, Microprocessor Report (1994, Vol. 8 No. 16)