29 Jan
1999
29 Jan
'99
2:44 p.m.
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Allison J Parent wrote:
WP... workspace pointer. back when the 9900 was new
registers (memory)
really ate up chip space and TI had an archetecture in the 990 minicomputer
where register were in memory instead of in the CPU. So the WP is a pointer
that points to a block of 16 locations in ram that are addressed in
instructions as R0 through R15.
Wow! What a cool architecture! That would be a very handy feature to
have in any processor.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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