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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 64 Vs 32
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Date: Mon, 30-Mar-87 20:20:23 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 30 20:20:23 1987
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> ...If you take an IBM 3090 and make it handle all the interrupts
> itself I suspect it would run about as fast as a 32 micro.

More like an 8-bit micro!  Unless IBM has smuggled in some improvements
in their newer machines, the 360/370/... interrupt system is dreadful.
("Vectors?  What are they?")
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"We must choose: the stars or	Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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