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- From: abaum@armltd.uucp (Allen Baum)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: Not using integers
- Message-ID: <6419@armltd.uucp>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 13:23:13 GMT
- References: <1992Sep8.182423.26063@athena.mit.edu> <BuBB0L.MDD@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Advanced RISC Machines Ltd
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- In article <1992Sep8.182423.26063@athena.mit.edu> solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes:
- >Does anybody here know of any microprocessors which did not use any integer
- >units or registers, but instead modified the floating point execution units
- >to inhibit the normalization pipe stage whenever an "integer" flag within
- >the instruction was set.
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- I don't believe any microprocessors have done this; there have n't been many micros
- that have had floating point, period.
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- But, I seem to recall the Burroughs 5000 series mainframes did something like that.
- Integer was just a special case of FP.--
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- Allen J. Baum Apple Computer baum@apple.com, abaum@armltd.co.uk
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