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From: mash@mips.com (John Mashey)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Floating Point Risc
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Date: 21 Apr 91 23:20:09 GMT
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In article <41518@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
>How about addressing memory using addresses similar to the Dewey decimal
>system?  This numbering system allows you to insert an arbitrary number

I'd be interested to hear if anyone has ever thought of any way to
implement such a thing that has a chance of reasonable implementation
cost in hardware? (I haven't...)
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