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_at_siconic.com
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