On Friday 14 November 2003 01:51, Ryan K. Brooks wrote:
> Lyle Bickley wrote:
> >"In addition to its impressive symmetry, the 88110 permits speculative
> >instruction issue and execution after a predicted branch. A register file
> >history buffer keeps track of registers so that they can be restored to
> > their pre-branch values if the branch is later discovered to have been
> >mis-predicted. Speculative execution allows the 88110 to extract the most
> >performance from its two issue capability"
>
> Speaking of the "oh so cool" 88k- does anyone have one of these? I
> always thought a Moto 88k box running some sort of *BSD would be a great
> addition to the collection. Anyone?
Yeah, I've got an NCD 19c X-windows terminal which uses an 88k of some variant
as its processor. I *think* that's the only 88k "machine" that I have...
Pat
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