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From: brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian WILLOUGHBY)
Newsgroups: comp.dsp
Subject: Re: MC56000 brain dead??
Message-ID: <10049@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 89 03:42:21 GMT
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Reply-To: brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian WILLOUGHBY)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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Remember that the 56000 is designed as a Digital Signal Processor.  I hardly
think that Motorola intended it as a general purpose 32 bit processor.  Thus
I would disagree that its hardware stack limitations are a "flaw".

For speed purposes, I think their internal stack is much faster than an
external stack.  As an internal stack, it is therefore more limited in size
than a normal external stack.  This speed improvement does more good for DSP
programming than any consideration for high level language support.

Brian Willoughby
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