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From: Nick_Janow@mindlink.UUCP (Nick Janow)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Computers for users not programmers
Message-ID: <4772@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 91 03:30:40 GMT
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xxremak@csduts1.lerc.nasa.gov (David A. Remaklus) writes:

> Manipulating byte oriented data with 64 bit word oriented hardware seems kind
> of slow to me.  It may be a fast processor, but one would think that byte
> oriented instructions would sure make text oriented processing go a lot
> faster.

Wouldn't it be better to have an 8-bit coprocessor for handling text?  It could
be optimized for handling text.  It could have its own memory (8-bit), disk
access and do 64-bt transfers to/from the main memory.

You could even have an 8-bit multiprocessing module for handling text.  That
could handle even large text-processing tasks without causing the user to wait.
:)