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From: daveb@geac.UUCP
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Subject: Re: register windows
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Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 08:49:23 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 26 08:49:23 1987
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In article <5567@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU 
	(Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer) writes:
>Every time I've looked at an article on register windows, I think of
>something I refer to as "the Johnson stack machine."
>I have good reason to believe that AT&T was working on hardware that
>used this model. Does anyone know what became of that?

  Well, ICL (in Britain) was working with stack-top caches on the
large 2900's some years ago (10!).  If anyone from Blighty would
care to comment on what happened subsequently, I'll refrain from
blurting out what was then the hot technique in the internal
rumor-mill.  (Can you say "half-cache"?)


 --dave (walking security breach) c-b
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