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From: pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: "Dribble Back" (WAS: Re: Register Windows (was Re: Japanese...))
Summary: Richard L. Sites
Message-ID: <6011@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 10 Oct 88 17:17:13 GMT
References: <58@zeno.MN.ORG> <91@zeno.MN.ORG> <ANDREW.88Sep28160417@jung.ha <9864@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: pardo@uw-june.UUCP (David Keppel)
Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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In article <9864@cup.portal.com> bcase@cup.portal.com writes:
>[ "lazy" used to be called "dribble back" ]

I believe that the term was coined by Richard L. Sites
in his seminal paper from the Caltech VLSI conference
of 1979, _How to use 1000 Registers_.  Good paper.
Read it.

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