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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Is handling off-alignment important?
Message-ID: <2637@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 10 Sep 90 12:49:20 GMT
References: <104037@convex.convex.com> <8840014@hpfcso.HP.COM> <141881@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1990Sep8.225345.745@quick.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <1990Sep8.225345.745@quick.com> srg@quick.com (Spencer Garrett) writes:

| Jim,
|    What may well have happened is that some early LISP implementer just
| "tried it" and found that on his vax the low order bits were ignored.

  With the wonders of loadable control store, every VAX can have it's
own instruction set. For a while we had had one with an FFT hardware
instruction. I don't think they worked this was from the factory,
though, the bits were used on the early 780s we had.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
    VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.