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- From: jtv@xs4all.nl (Jeroen T. Vermeulen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New slot box Amiga
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 96 22:06:25
- Organization: Leiden University, Mathematics & Computer Science, The Netherlands
- Message-ID: <19960327.7BA85C0.13BBC@asd11-03.dial.xs4all.nl>
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- In article <4j26r7$49b@ar.ar.com.au> storm@ar.ar.com.au (Storm/Cydonia) writes:
- >
- > : > >As for the PPC, how anyone can take seriously a processor with an EIEIO
- > : > >instruction I'll never know :-) |
- > : > |
- > : > What's that? --------------------------------------------------------
- >
- > : Enforce In-Order Execution of Input and Output.
-
- > I got all excited about the PPC's 'lha' instruction - I thought it did
- > lha compression in hardware! Imagine my disappointment when I discovered
- > it meant "load halfword algebraic". :-)
-
- Rumour has it that for the POWER5 architecture, IBM has analyzed the tasks most
- frequently performed by computers of all kinds over the past twenty years in
- real life, and come up with the following hardware-optimized special-purpose
- instructions to augment the instruction set:
-
- lllll #n (play Leisure-suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards part n)
- hello (direct translation of "printf("Hello world!\n");")
- core r1,r2 (create core dump or <r1> bytes starting at address <r2>)
- wgpf (bring up "general protection fault" requester)
- pel #n (perform empty loop of n iterations)
-
- Mind you, this is only a rumour so don't rewrite your code just yet.
-
-
- > Storm / Cydonia / / / / / / / / / / / / ' / Packing class
- > / /\/> / / / / / / / / / /__ & kicking arse!
- > (coder) \__/ \_/\__/\__/\/\/\/\/\/ \/
-
- --
- ============================================================================
- # Jeroen T. Vermeulen \"How are we doing kid?"/ Yes, we use Amigas. #
- #--- jtv@xs4all.nl ---\"Oh, same as always."/-- ... --#
- #jvermeul@wi.leidenuniv.nl \ "That bad, huh?" / Got a problem with that? #
-