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From: faunt@spar.UUCP (Doug Faunt)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: HP RISC comments
Message-ID: <157@spar.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 01:28:10 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 21 01:28:10 1986
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Reply-To: faunt@spar.UUCP (Doug Faunt)
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Organization: Schlumberger Artificial Research, CA
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Keywords: HP Spectrum
Summary: there is no HP3000 mode!

The HP-Spectrum has no HP3000 stack architecture mode. It is a
register-to-register architecture with no support whatsoever for
HP3000 emulation. Nevertheless, using one of three strategies
involving different amounts of work on the part of the user, HP can
get either comparable, or 2 times, or 5 times the performance of the
fastest HP3000 (simulate, smart 'simulate', or recompile
respectively).