Re: New instructions for RISCs (was Re: Byte ordering)

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1990 17:08

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In article <140@illini.osc.edu> djh@osc.edu (David Heisterberg) writes:
> "scalar merge" is CRI's terminology, not mine, and, unfortunately, one
> can't quite consider a CRAY to be a workstation.

One of these days...

> However, that's not what I (or the cft77
> compiler) use it for, but then there's more of you than there are of me.

Actually, my home workstation (an Amiga) has a BitBlt coprocessor already.
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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: New instructions for RISCs (was Re: Byte ordering)
Keywords: bitblt
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Date: 13 Feb 90 17:08:09 GMT
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