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- From: ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
- Subject: Re: Registers (was 68060 for Macs)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.200555.3440@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom. San Jose, California
- References: <1993Jan17.192745.13494@netcom.com> <WAGNER.93Jan21091430@grace.math.uh.edu> <1993Jan21.152311.14364@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 20:05:55 GMT
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- tcwan@umiami.ir.miami.edu writes ...
- >Hmmm, seeing the comment about keeping data in registers -- there's an
- >article in the latest Byte magazine about the Hobbit processor from
- >AT&T. It doesn't use program addressible registers at all. It's a memory
- >to memory architecture, compared to the more traditional register to memory
- >architecture of the 68x000 and 80x86 chips.
- [...]
- >#This has nothing directly related to the 68060 discussion, but I'd thought
- >that it's a neat idea :) [they didn't talk about this in my computer
- >architecture class]
-
- Check out the HP3000 line some time. Entirely stack based
- architecture (a la Forth). No traditional registers (aside from the
- usual segment and stack pointers).
-
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- Ray Fischer "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth
- ray@netcom.com than lies." -- Friedrich Nietszsche
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