Re: unaligned accesses

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From: baum
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1987 21:01

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In reference to making complicated things go as fast as simple
things: it is rumored that IBM deliberately put wait loops into the
370/145 microcode, so that when the virtual memory was added to make
them 370/148s, they wouldn't run any slower!

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Subject: Re: unaligned accesses
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Date: Mon, 13-Apr-87 16:01:30 EST
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