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From: kludge@gitpyr.UUCP (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: HP RISC comments
Message-ID: <1581@gitpyr.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 22-Mar-86 11:01:59 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 22 11:01:59 1986
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References: <6504@utzoo.UUCP> <15000001@hpcvrd.UUCP> <410@mips.UUCP>
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In article <410@mips.UUCP> hansen@mips.UUCP (Craig Hansen) writes:
>Spectrum (ahem, "Precision") isn't a stack architecture, and doesn't
>have an instruction set that resembles the HP3000.
>I won't comment on how Spectrum executes HP3000 code except to say
>that Spectrum doesn't have a mode bit (In "Soul of a New Machine"
>parlance, a bag on the side of the machine).

   Hmmm... the box runs code for a machine utterly unlike itself,
without a mode bit.   Sounds like software emulation to me, which is
precisely what the HP rep screamed about it not using.  I'm not
even going to ask about this one...

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