Re: Machines with cond. assignment instruction?

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From: Bob Beckwith
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:22

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In article <1993Jan21.163607.31684@watson.ibm.com> pradeep@watson.ibm.com  
(Pradeep Dubey) writes:
> Are there announced machines (specially micros) with
> some conditional assignment instruction.  I mean
> instruction such as the following:
> 
> MovCond R1, R2, R3 /* if (c1) R1 <- R2 else R1 <- R3 */
> 
> where, c1 refers to some result of some previous compare.
> 
> Any pointers to such machines or any quantitative evaluation
> of usefulness of this instruction in the specific context
> of some machine would be appreciated.

Unless I'm mistaken, the Multiflow Trace machines had conditional assignment  
instructions. While you certainly wouldn't classify them as micros, they're  
there (or at least were, at one point :-( ). Any ex-Multifloyd's out there  
(DBP? PKR?) might be able to provide more information.

  --Bob

Bob_Beckwith@NeXT.COM
Digital Hardware Engineering
NeXT Computer, Inc.
900 Chesapeake Drive
Redwood City, CA 94063 USA

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