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This is Intel and Hewlett-Packard's invention, designed to be used on Intel's Itanium processor. It is a method for arranging instructions so that they are ordered to be explicitly parallel. That is, multiple instructions can easily be executed at once, assuming that the hardware supports it. Intel's IA-64 architecture, including Itanium processors, is designed to get the most out of instructions arranged in this manner.
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EPIC - Hi,First thank you for the excellent work with Telecom Digest.I have a question: In the articlehttp://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?pid=1396that speak of with a satellite phone, a regular Iraqi cell phone("Iraqnafone"), and a special CPA phone with a 914 (Westchester, NY)area code just to stay in touch with people. Even then, most of thetime you can't call one type of phone from the others.Why would you not be able to call one from another except for lack ofcoverage perhaps?Thank you again for the excellent Telecom Digest!sidd[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Thank you for your compliments, Sidd.I do not know the answer to your question regards compatibility, butperhaps the guys who click on the link in your message will read theNation Institute article and be able to explain it better. I do knowthat over the weekend two guys I know from Fort Riley US Army got backhere after a year in the war in Iraq. They mentioned to me thesatellite phones in their canteens over there which they are allowedto use as desired to call back to the USA, but they said sometimes theline of guys waiting to make calls was very long, yet the canteenphone clerk had two or three phones to 'spare' but they could only beused 'a certain way' because they were incompatible with the otherphones, and could not be used in calls back to the USA. Maybe thatwill say something about it. PAT]
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