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From: urjlew@uncecs.edu (Rostyk Lewyckyj)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: registerless architecture
Summary: another use for registers
Keywords: cache
Message-ID: <1990Nov16.160646.5351@uncecs.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 90 16:06:46 GMT
References: <1990Nov12.145410.29035@cs.cmu.edu> <56084@brunix.UUCP>
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The original purpose of registers or B boxes as they were called
on the machine at Manchester where they were invented was for
address modification for addressing arrays, rather than doing
permanent code modification on the fly. Their use as temporary
volatile fast storage came later. So don't forrget the original
register uses.