Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!ucbvax!van-bc!mdivax1!mclaren
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Subject: Re: Novice question.
Summary: This is a C group.
Message-ID: <1990Nov17.005357.6774@mdivax1.uucp>
Date: 17 Nov 90 00:53:57 GMT
References: <1990Nov14.010511.7241@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <965@demott.COM> <11476@j.cc.purdue.edu> <1990Nov16.145700.8078@titan.uucp>
Reply-To: mdivax1!mclaren (Gavin McLaren)
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In article <1990Nov16.145700.8078@titan.uucp> jkeane@titan.uucp (Jim Keane -- Software) writes:
>In article <11476@j.cc.purdue.edu> zhou@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Albert Zhou) writes:
>>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?

Yes, but what does this have to do with many registers? I thought
(flames cheerfully accepted if I am wrong) that the Harvard architecture's
main attribute was seperate data and instruction streams, not a large number of
registers.  Indeed, the Motorola 88000 is promoted as a Harvard architecture
part, and it has only 32 general purpose registers.

In any case, further discussion of this topic should perhaps be moved to
a more suitable newsgroup (comp.arch?).