Which is the most beautiful and memorable hardware structure in a CPU?
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From: Tim McCaffrey on 30 Mar 2010 12:52 In article <hosgq9$h5m$1(a)smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk>, nmm1(a)cam.ac.uk says... > >In article <27ebdb37-e3ba-4559-be7d-d7f3b6613d77(a)30g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>, >MitchAlsup <MitchAlsup(a)aol.com> wrote: >>The most memorable hardware structure is the vector indirect >>addressing mode. > >Yes. There were and are more bizarre ones, but they are Not Memorable >(see Sellars and Yeatman). > > >Regards, >Nick Maclaren. I'll see your vector indirect mode, and add segment descriptors! (Really, is anything more compilcated than VALC?) (Unisys Clearpath Libra (MCP) systems) (aka. A series) - Tim |