Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Novice question.
Message-ID: <1990Nov15.165206.6276@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Nov14.010511.7241@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <965@demott.COM> <11476@j.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 90 16:52:06 GMT

In article <11476@j.cc.purdue.edu> zhou@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Albert Zhou) writes:
>... I just cannot help thinking how silly we are to be content with such a
>limited number of registers...

Well, some of us aren't silly.  My favorite CPU has 192 registers, give
or take a few.  (It's the AMD 29000, in case anyone is curious.)  The
silly people are the ones who blindly buy PC compatibles.
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