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From: jkenton@pinocchio.encore.com (Jeff Kenton)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Is handling off-alignment important?
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Date: 6 Sep 90 00:53:51 GMT
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From article <141881@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, by jputnam@raptor.Eng.Sun.COM (James M.):
>
>     Something he shouldn't have about VAX quad-word loads ignoring
>     low-order bits, and this being a useful feature for LISP.
> 
>     Sincere apologies for the misinformation. Does anyone know of a machine
>     that has this "feature", or I did construct this out of whole cloth?
> 

The 88000 will let you run in this mode.  It still seems like laziness to me.






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