Welcome and VME

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Wed Nov 15 03:07:36 2000

On Nov 14, 0:30, Iggy Drougge wrote:
> Tony Duell skrev:

> >26 bits? I can't think of a machine with a 26 bit data path. I believe
> >some ARMs have a 26 bit address bus, but that's hardly a 26 bit machine.
> >Now 24 bit machines can be interesting...
>
> Oh no? Finding an ARM-based machine around here is about as easy as
finding a
> live condor in the northern hemisphere.
> What feature about the older ARM processors is 26 bit?

As Tony said, the address bus is 26-bit, as is the program counter (the
remaining 6 bits are used for processor flags). The data registers are
32-bit, of course.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York
Received on Wed Nov 15 2000 - 03:07:36 GMT

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