Another forgotten VLIW processor of the 1990s: Sun MAJC is a VLIW architecture developed by Sun for media and signal processing. Sun produced one MAJC processor in 1999, MAJC-5200, a “high performance general purpose microprocessor” for multimedia and Java computing. MAJC is a scalable architecture that exploited multiple forms of parallelism, a hot topic of 1990s microarchitecture. MAJC was multiprocessing capable with “vertical micro-threading” and very long instruction word (VLIW) ...| OpenPA.net
Another slight detour from PA-RISC content on OpenPA: The RISC Laptop Archive on the various RISC-based laptops sold throughout the 1990s. Technical computing in the 1990s was mostly done on RISC workstations with Unix operating systems and specialized applications. For mobile use cases, some popular Unix vendors built RISC laptops. Often based on contemporary Unix workstations, these RISC laptops were often marketed for government and military uses such as command, technical analysis and sur...| OpenPA.net