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I have been pondering an idea for a machine architecture.  A processor
that has no registers.  I am familiar with some architectures that have
done this.  My twist on this theme is to have a very large cache on chip
for memory locations (effectivelly becoming registers).  This goes
against the RISC idea of having very large register sets with load store
instructions.  This machine would just reference memory, and the most
common addresses becoming cached internally to the processor giving very
fast access.  Does anyone know of such a machine, and what are your
thoughts on this kind of architecture.  I envision the cache being
something like 8K or greater giving a large effective register set.

This machine idea seems very Turing like in that it has a large memory
space and small control structure.  If machine instructions as well as
memory values remain on chip operations should be very quick.



The one processor I know of is the TI9900 I believe, but it does not
have all the cache stuff.