Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!agate!darkstar!ucscb.UCSC.EDU!unknown From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: MacMusings Message-ID: <8241@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Date: 27 Oct 90 07:24:26 GMT References: <9010270632.AA00108@apple.com> Sender: usenet@darkstar.ucsc.edu Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; Open Access Computing Lines: 13 In article <9010270632.AA00108@apple.com> MQUINN%UTCVM@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU writes: >Oh, I agree. I was just pointing out that having more registers doesn't >necessarily make the program take up more space or make it sloppy. But having more registers takes up more bits of an instruction if you want instructions to be general and use any register.. (I should know, my partner & I just finished the instruction set for the computer we're building partially in hardware, and partially simulating in software) -- / Apple II(GS) Forever! unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu \ \"If cartoons were meant for adults, they'd be on in prime time."-Lisa Simpson/