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Re: [f-cpu] F-CPU vs. Itanium



On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Yann Guidon wrote:
>Juergen Goeritz wrote:
>> On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Yann Guidon wrote:
>> >after some research, i think that some other computers use
>> >this kind of technique but i'm not sure.
>> >SRB was created when writing a mail during the "how many registers" thread
>> >and it is closely related to the FC0 architecture but it is possible
>> >to find a similar principle in the i860, maybe (or is it i960 ?)
>> 
>> i860 was the floating point vector processor, i960 is the embedded
>> RISC processor (both Intel).
>
>i don't remember which, but one (or maybe both, i don't know)
>has a mechanism for fast register set swapping. Some other
>CPUs probably have something similar.

Me think it was i860 because I worked with i960 and
can't remember that sort of thing.

JG

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