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From: pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: multiple register windows
Message-ID: <6276@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 28 Oct 88 21:54:58 GMT
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colwell@mfci.UUCP (Robert Colwell) writes:
>[ Problem w/ reg windows: one size fits all *only* ]

There have been several studies of variable-sized windows, and I
believe that somebody put an 4-size scheme into hardware.

	;-D on  ( Just another blithe assertion )  Pardo
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