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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!edcastle!aiai!richard
  2. From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.arch
  4. Subject: Re: Indexing in microprocessors
  5. Message-ID: <7459@skye.ed.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 4 Sep 92 16:40:53 GMT
  7. References: <1811llINN3ci@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <08jn8-q.feustel@netcom.com> <JBS.92Sep3133125@sun1.Congruent.COM>
  8. Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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  11. In article <JBS.92Sep3133125@sun1.Congruent.COM> jbs@Congruent.COM (Jeffrey Siegal) writes:
  12. >Certainly, the PDP10 had this capability.  You could even place a
  13. >small loop in the registers and jump to it!
  14.  
  15. Fast memory for the registers was an optional extra on the PDP10, so
  16. it might not do you much good.
  17.  
  18. -- Richard
  19. -- 
  20. Richard Tobin,
  21. AI Applications Institute,                                R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk
  22. Edinburgh University.
  23.