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From: foo@titan.rice.edu (Mark Hall)
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Subject: Re: registerless architecture
Message-ID: <1990Nov13.011231.4899@rice.edu>
Date: 13 Nov 90 01:12:31 GMT
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)In article <1990Nov12.145410.29035@cs.cmu.edu> spot@WOOZLE.GRAPHICS.CS.CMU.EDU (Scott Draves) writes:
)
)   Has anyone every thought about or done a registerless architecture?
)
    Just for a sense of history: the TI 9900 (and 99000 I believe) were
  also registerless.  They never made it very big in the marketplace.

    (this is almost folklore to me, so correct me if I am wrong. It has
  been a long time since I looked at a chip spec. Any chip spec.)

  - mark