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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: 386 Family Products
Message-ID: <172@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Dec-85 15:39:58 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 18 15:39:58 1985
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In article <498@ukc.UUCP> rde@ukc.UUCP (R.D.Eager) writes:
>
>> ...the 80386 still has too few registers....
>
>Oh yeah? What's so great about lots of registers? You're better off with
>a  nice  simple  design  (no  bits wasted in each instruction to specify
>which register) and a good fast cache. A cache is after  all  a  dynamic
>equivalent  to the attempts (often bad ones) at register optimisation by
>compilers.
>
Well, the 80?86 doesn't seem to have a cache.
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Tim Smith       sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim || ima!ism780!tim || ihnp4!cithep!tim