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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple's committment to the // line
Message-ID: <11579@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 9 Nov 89 12:22:25 GMT
References: <7029.infoapple.net@pro-generic>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <7029.infoapple.net@pro-generic> ericmcg@pro-generic.cts.com (Eric Mcgillicuddy) writes:
>orthogonal in architecture terms basically means no special purpose registers.

That's one manifestation, but the concept is considerably more general.