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Article #1759Re: RISCs Register sets and PDP 10/20s
From: Mark Linimon
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 1989 15:56
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 1989 15:56
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In article <3301@alliant.Alliant.COM>, werme@Alliant.COM (Ric Werme) writes:
> A Japanese company made a "68200" which was
> patterned after the 68000 but with more general purpose registers. We found
> that we could write smaller, faster code for it instead of the 68000 thanks
> largely to not having to shuffle data between the A and D set.
Um, there may have been duplicate numbers or a cross-development situation,
but I do believe that the 68200 was a Mostek part. As I recall my boss
(then of the Mostek SystemGroup, now part of Mizar) worked on the cross-
development tools for it on the VAX.
Mark Linimon
Mizar, Inc.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!texsun!pollux!attctc!linimon From: linimon@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Mark Linimon) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: RISCs Register sets and PDP 10/20s Summary: 68200? Message-ID: <8890@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> Date: 5 Aug 89 15:56:38 GMT References: <550@augean.OZ> <43445@bbn.COM> <3301@alliant.Alliant.COM> Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas Lines: 14