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From: jkeane@titan.uucp (Jim Keane -- Software)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Novice question.
Message-ID: <1990Nov16.145700.8078@titan.uucp>
Date: 16 Nov 90 14:57:00 GMT
References: <1990Nov14.010511.7241@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <965@demott.COM> <11476@j.cc.purdue.edu>
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In article <11476@j.cc.purdue.edu> zhou@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Albert Zhou) writes:
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>   Registers reside within CPU and certainly are accessed much more efficiently,but I just cannot help thinking how silly we are to be content with such a
>limited number of registers. When CPU was originally designed decades ago,
>it was very costly to increase the size of CPU. Today, we still stick to
>a single small-size CPU with no reason. It's high time for a revolution.
>How many people can envision a microcomputer with thousands of big CPU, each
>having thousands of registers?

Have you ever heard of the Harvard Architecture?