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From: mac3n@babbage.acc.virginia.edu (Alex Colvin)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: conditional branches
Summary: bit register
Message-ID: <158@babbage.acc.virginia.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 88 16:36:35 GMT
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> >What I'd like to see in an architecture, as a minimum, would be a set
> >of one bit registers into which boolean values can be written.

> IBM uses exactly this scheme in the RT/PC, although they only have one
> general purpose bit that can hold any boolean result.

So does the Honeywell Level 6 mini, now called the DPS6.  This gives you a
convenient place to return a status bit, but no substatus.  A problem is
that many langages aren't prepared to use such a register.  Seen any BIT
types in C?