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Re: Registerless processor

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From: Theo de Raadt
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 06:11
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In article <BxxwAq.G8C@xrtll.uucp> rsnider@xrtll.uucp (Richard Snider) writes:
   The PDP-10 could fall into this classification without too much arguing.
   It had its set of 16 general purpose registers defined simply as the
   first 16 locations in memory.  Naturally, they implemented the the

PDP11 registers map into the memory address space as well. There are two
banks of 8 registers, though which can be accessed depends on a bits in
the status register.

I wonder how this was implimented? I guess that in the early PDP11's the
registers did not exist at all. But certainly they must have fixed that
in later versions. Was it possible to run programs out of the registers
on a newer PDP11?
 <tdr.
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From: deraadt@newt.cuc.ab.ca (Theo de Raadt)
Subject: Re: Registerless processor
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