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From: montnaro@sprite.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: subroutine frequency
Message-ID: <1220@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Feb-87 17:11:37 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 18 17:11:37 1987
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Reply-To: sprite!montnaro@steinmetz.UUCP (Skip Montanaro)
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In article <24929@rochester.ARPA> crowl@rochester.UUCP (Lawrence Crowl) writes:
>In article <425@cpocd2.UUCP> howard@cpocd2.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) writes:
>>Isn't this a computer ARCHITECTURE group?  Did you know that HALF of the
>>memory traffic on a VAX-11/780 is data being saved/restored?
>
>Wait a second!  ALL the memory traffic on ANY machine is data that is being
>saved and restored.  That is the purpose of memory.  (Picky, picky :-)
'Taint necessarily so. Doesn't the VAX do memory<->memory transfers as well
as register<->register and register<->memory?

Skip Montanaro

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