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- From: jbs@Congruent.COM (Jeffrey Siegal)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: Indexing in microprocessors
- Message-ID: <JBS.92Sep3133125@sun1.Congruent.COM>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 17:31:25 GMT
- References: <1811llINN3ci@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <08jn8-q.feustel@netcom.com>
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- In-reply-to: feustel@netcom.com's message of 2 Sep 92 00:43:30 GMT
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- In article <08jn8-q.feustel@netcom.com> feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel) writes:
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- I think several pdp computers (including the pdp11) had this
- capability as the registers could be addresses as memory locations.
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- Certainly, the PDP10 had this capability. You could even place a
- small loop in the registers and jump to it!
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- Jeffrey Siegal
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