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Article #12822Re: byte order: be reasonable - do it my way...
From: Amos Shapir
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1987 07:54
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1987 07:54
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When I was working on CCI's 6/32, which is basically a vax-like architecture turned MSB-ian, the problem that Uri mentioned (partial read/write to registers) was hard to resolve. The result: on CCI 6/32, a register is always long; that requires sign-extension, but that doesn't take more time than a 'movb'. -- Amos Shapir National Semiconductor (Israel) 6 Maskit st. P.O.B. 3007, Herzlia 46104, Israel (011-972) 52-522261 amos%nsta@nsc 34.48'E 32.10'N
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!nsc!nsta!instable!amos From: amos@instable.UUCP (Amos Shapir) Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.m68k Subject: Re: byte order: be reasonable - do it my way... Message-ID: <669@instable.UUCP> Date: Sun, 11-Jan-87 02:54:39 EST Article-I.D.: instable.669 Posted: Sun Jan 11 02:54:39 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Jan-87 23:00:47 EST References: <760@orcisi.UUCP> Reply-To: amos%nsta@nsc.com (Amos Shapir) Organization: National Semiconductor (Israel) Ltd. Lines: 11 Summary: Hi, uri!