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From: rcg@lpi.liant.com (Rick Gorton)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Let's pretend
Summary: REGISTERS, registers, and MORE REGISTERS
Keywords: Intel, 586, windows
Message-ID: <1990Dec26.020034.4131@lpi.liant.com>
Date: 26 Dec 90 02:00:34 GMT
References: <3042@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Organization: Language Processors Inc., Framingham MA
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>  What features should be put into the CPU to improve performance and
>reduce chip count?
>

SOME REGISTERS!!!!!

And not some of those silly things usable only by instruction FOO
where register q contains an address for FOO and register z contains
a count for FOO.  How about a couple of GEN-YOU-WINE general purpose
32 bit registers?

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Richard Gorton               rcg@lpi.liant.com  (508) 626-0006
Language Processors, Inc.    Framingham, MA 01760
Hey!  This is MY opinion.  Opinions have little to do with corporate policy.