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From: callen@inmet
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Programming (was Register usage
Message-ID: <199100004@inmet>
Date: 1 Jun 89 14:03:00 GMT
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Nf-From: inmet!callen    Jun  1 10:03:00 1989


The AMD 29000 has two categories of registers, "local" and "global." The
local registers are used as a "stack cache" (another name for a register
window, if you ask me); the global registers can either be made available to
the application OR protected and used in, say, interrupt routines.

-- Jerry Callen
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