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From: mash@mips.COM (John Mashey)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Do RISC Compilers Consider Multiprogramming?
Keywords: RISC compiler context-switch architecture multiprogramming
Message-ID: <2202@winchester.mips.COM>
Date: 17 May 88 22:02:43 GMT
References: <620@speedy.mcnc.org> <May.6.09.24.49.1988.13843@constance.rutgers.edu> <21653@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Reply-To: mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <21653@amdcad.AMD.COM> tim@amdcad.UUCP (Tim Olson) writes:
>In article <May.6.09.24.49.1988.13843@constance.rutgers.edu> webber@constance.rutgers.edu (Bob Webber) writes:
>| The Mips R2000 (and presumably the R3000) has a large register set that...

>Uhhh.. I think you may have your processors confused, here.  The Am29000
>is the processor that has the large register file which can be used as a...

Yes, for sure.  The R[23]000 has 32 integer registers (although you don;t
need to save/restore the one that's always zero), and the equivalent of
32 32-bit FP ones.

The comment missed the target by a couple blocks in Sunnyvale :-)
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