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From: jesup@pawl10.pawl.rpi.edu (Randell E. Jesup)
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Subject: Re: RPM-40 microprocessor @ 40 MHz; dat
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Date: 10 Mar 88 09:01:01 GMT
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In article <9852@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> oconnor@sungoddess.steinmetz (Dennis M. O'Connor) writes:
>   An RPM40 at 32MHz would also place addresses on the address bus once
>   every 30ns, but would execute 32-native-peak-MIPS.

	Actually, Dennis, the RPM-40 only puts an address out when it does
a branch.  And since it fetches two instructions at a time, ....  :-)

Note that one saves a lot a bus traffic by letting the I-mem feed you
sequentially until you do a branch.

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