Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!chiba!khb From: khb%chiba@Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - SPD Advanced Languages) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: specmarks Message-ID: <126899@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 27 Oct 89 01:08:24 GMT References: <327@ssp1.idca.tds.philips.nl> <4420015@hpihoah.HP.COM> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: khb@sun.UUCP (Keith Bierman - SPD Advanced Languages) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 19 In article meissner@dg-rtp.dg.com (Michael Meissner) writes: > >Huh? The 88K DOES NOT have register windows. Maybe you were thinking >of the AMD2900? Neither does the AMD2900. It has a large register file (192 sticks in my memory) and a way to "relabel" the registers (sorta like a hw pointer to the physical registers). I don't think Dave could have been thinking AMD2900 because it wasn't in the SPEC numbers he posted. Keith H. Bierman |*My thoughts are my own. !! kbierman@sun.com It's Not My Fault | MTS --Only my work belongs to Sun* I Voted for Bill & | Advanced Languages/Floating Point Group Opus | "When the going gets Weird .. the Weird turn PRO" "There is NO defense against the attack of the KILLER MICROS!" Eugene Brooks