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From: herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (daniel lance herrick)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: bizarre instructions
Message-ID: <3386.27c55e18@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
Date: 22 Feb 91 23:08:24 GMT
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In article <2998@charon.cwi.nl>, dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
>  >         I would like an instruction which counts the number of ones in
>  > the binary representation of an integer but I find it hard to argue
>  > that this would be widely used.
> Ask Seymour Cray why that instruction was put in the Cray-1 as an
> afterthought.

I havn't seen Seymour posting here, and I don't often meet him.
Now that I am suitably impressed, would you share with us what
he would tell us if we did ask him?
> --
> dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland
> dik@cwi.nl

dan herrick
herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com


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