Independent PA-RISC and Itanium information – OpenPA.netPA-RISC was a rather conservative RISC design for the 1980s, HP described the Precision Architecture as the result of years of studying RISC: Reduced instruction set (simple, efficient instructions) Hardwired instruction set is implemented in hardware, not microcoded Instruction size is fixed length and fixed format (32-bit) for pipelining Load/store design: Only load and store operation access th
