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From: hascall@cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Is handling off-alignment impor
Message-ID: <2458@dino.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 15 Aug 90 14:25:44 GMT
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In article <3300155@m.cs.uiuc.edu> marick@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:

}The Gould Powernode machines had 32 bit words, 24 bit addresses.  The
}top 8 bits were ignored.  In our Lisp, we put the tag bits there.
}Again, there was no need to mask before dereferences.  The tag bits...

    As someone who went through a conversion from MVS to MVS/XA I find
this perfectly horrible.