29 Jan
2011
29 Jan
'11
12:31 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Are you implying that the data registers should be
variable length, or
that a variable number of bits should be used in each instruction?
The only processor I've ever seen for which instructions are a variable
number of bits (not bytes or words) is the Intel iAPX 432. For the
release 1 GDP, instructions ranged from 6 to 344 bits long.
Eric