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From: rstewart@megatek.UUCP (Rich Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: i860 registers/chip in general
Message-ID: <495@tau.megatek.uucp>
Date: 11 Jun 90 15:04:53 GMT
Organization: Megatek Corporation, San Diego, Ca.
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Does anyone out there *know* why intel insisted in creating a distinction
between floating point and integer registers? Are they planning to
change this in the ix60 model?? Sure could write faster software if they
did.

-Rich