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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Leading zero and pop count
Message-ID: <1756@garth.UUCP>
Date: 5 Nov 88 07:03:42 GMT
References: <10882@hall.cray.com>
Reply-To: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Organization: INTERGRAPH (APD) -- Palo Alto, CA
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>I've never seen these useful operations in another architecture, though.
>Have you? I'd be interested in hearing about it. I'm ignorant of HW design,
>but they can't be too hard to implement.
>
>-Peter Klausler / Cray Research compiler development / Mendota Heights, MN

Obviously collusion of CDC and Cray management. CDC Cyber 205 provided all
these and more. The compiler group, however, never knew anything about what
was in a Cray.
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