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From: Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: is Vax addressing sane today
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2024 17:35:40 +0300
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On Sun, 06 Oct 2024 14:03:59 GMT
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) wrote:

> Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> writes:
> >On Sun, 06 Oct 2024 08:40:55 GMT
> >anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) wrote:
> >  
> >> 
> >> AMD are easily provable culprits in this scam: They call their
> >> micro-ops "ROPs", for RISC ops.
> >>   
> >
> >Wasn't the term invented by Nexgen for Nx586 and later adapted by AMD
> >after they scrapped their home brewed core in favor of Nexgen's core
> >that later became know as AMD K6?  
> 
> Easily possible.  AMD may not have been the original culprit, but they
> continued this terminology, and therefore are just as guilty.
> 
> - anton

To their defense, AMD's use of the term ROP didn't last for long.
K8 manuals use the better term micro-ops. I don't have K7 manual to
look, but it seems to me that it uses the same terminology as K8.