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From: jcb@frisbee.Eng.Sun.COM (Jim Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Let's pretend
Keywords: Intel, 586, windows
Message-ID: <4748@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 18 Dec 90 19:51:38 GMT
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sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:

    In article <3042@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>, davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
    >  What features should be put into the CPU to improve performance and
    >reduce chip count?

    While I don't know that it would reduce chip count, a Good Thing to have
    would be:  MORE REGISTERS!!!!!!

    But, of course, it won't happen.  *sigh*

    -- 
    Sean Eric Fagan  | "I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it;
    sef@kithrup.COM  |  I had a bellyache at the time."

There are a whole host of debugging registers in the 486 --  is  there
any  way  to use them?  One would think that when the chip gets to the
market  they  would  have  the  debugging  out  of  the way, and those
registers would be freed up for use by OS and compiler people.

-Jim Becker
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