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From: faustus@ucbcad.berkeley.edu (Wayne A. Christopher)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: register saving on context switch
Message-ID: <1311@ucbcad.berkeley.edu>
Date: Mon, 16-Mar-87 14:45:41 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 16 14:45:41 1987
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References: <4376@columbia.UUCP> <448@cpocd2.UUCP> <5763@amdahl.UUCP> <1477@celtics.UUCP>
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In article <1477@celtics.UUCP>, roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger Klorese) writes:
> Each window is composed of 16 parameter registers, 16 local variable
> registers, and a window into the next 16 registers (a callee's parameter
> registers).  Registers are configured as follows on each model:
> 
> Model         Number of windows (depth)     Number of contexts (width)
> =====         =========================     ==========================
> C1230                  32                            16

The processor has 16K registers???  On chip?  Is it implemented as a RAM?
Is that fast enough?

	Wayne