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From: peter@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: 680x0 vs 80x86
Message-ID: <1991Jun23.152230.17393@Sugar.NeoSoft.com>
Date: 23 Jun 91 15:22:30 GMT
References: <92@ryptyde.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
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In article <92@ryptyde.UUCP> dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes:
> This probably has something to do with the fact that the 80x86 has
> general-purpose registers, as opposed to seperate address and data
> registers, right? This would at least make it harder to impliment?

You gotta be kidding... *every* register on the 80x86 just about is special
purpose. There are like a couple of GP accumulators, and the rest are string
pointers, segment pointers, stack pointers, and the like.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'   <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
                   'U`    "Have you hugged your wolf today?"