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From: keith@mips.COM (Keith Garrett)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: ECL 88000
Message-ID: <16182@gumby.mips.COM>
Date: 29 Mar 89 23:04:07 GMT
References: <4559@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
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In article <4559@pt.cs.cmu.edu> lindsay@MATHOM.GANDALF.CS.CMU.EDU (Donald Lindsay) writes:
  [blurb on Data General's 88k ecl implementation]
>   One ECL chip for integer, one for float. Two copies of the registers.

gee, doesn't the 88k have a single register file. must be hell maintaining
register coherency.
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