Newsgroups: comp.arch
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: binary compatibility through emulation
Message-ID: <1990Nov13.044600.11731@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <0093F1A8.A28E4920@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> <1990Nov3.052952.1786@zoo.toronto.edu> <0093F295.10626840@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> <1990Nov12.173728.20026@mozart.amd.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 90 04:46:00 GMT

In article <1990Nov12.173728.20026@mozart.amd.com> brett@cayman.amd.com (Brett Stewart) writes:
>Many customers of our AMD 29K are interested in preserving old binaries
>of CISC machines by using a pure-software, or hardware-assisted
>technique to allow them to execute on the 29K.  I believe the
>preference for the 29K architecture for this (and hence the
>relevance of this posting) is due to the ability of the 29K to store
>a model of the 'volatile state' of the guest architecture in its
>capacious register file and still have enough room left over ...

"Capacious"?  Try "cavernous" (which is how I read the above line on
first glance)!  :-) :-)
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