Re: specmarks

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From: Keith Bierman - SPD Advanced Lan...
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1989 01:08

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In article <MEISSNER.89Oct25172147@twohot.rtp.dg.com> meissner@dg-rtp.dg.com (Michael Meissner) writes:
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>Huh?  The 88K DOES NOT have register windows.  Maybe you were thinking
>of the AMD2900?

Neither does the AMD2900. It has a large register file (192 sticks in
my memory) and a way to "relabel" the registers (sorta like a hw
pointer to the physical registers).

I don't think Dave could have been thinking AMD2900 because it wasn't
in the SPEC numbers he posted.

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