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Article #2943Re: 32-bit Ram & Instruction Lengths.
From: Jonathan Hue
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 1990 07:33
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 1990 07:33
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When I think of instructions, I think of the things that actually have to be decoded by the CPU. That's why I said 1 to 3 words for the '020 and '030. By Motorola's definition, that would be the operation word and one or two special operand specifiers. An "instruction" as defined by Motorola includes those, and any words specifying source and destination effective address, which can be up to five words each. 1+5+5 = 11, as someone pointed out earlier. Others call the operation word the instruction, and therefore say all instructions are one word. All three definitions could be considered correct. -Jonathan
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From: hue@netcom.UUCP (Jonathan Hue)
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Subject: Re: 32-bit Ram & Instruction Lengths.
Summary: Depends what you call instructions
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