Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/26/83; site ihuxf.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!mit-eddie!mit-vax!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxi!mhuxa!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxf!parnass From: parnass@ihuxf.UUCP Newsgroups: net.arch Subject: Re: Barrel Shifters - (Bellmac(TM)-32) Message-ID: <566@ihuxf.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Jul-83 15:32:41 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxf.566 Posted: Wed Jul 6 15:32:41 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Jul-83 12:26:24 EDT Organization: BTL Naperville, Il. Lines: 26 "One of the best features in some of the newer microprocessors (29116, RISC) is a barrel shifter....... Are there any other processors, present or future, that have this component? I suspect that it is almost a necessity in 32-bit micros." As shown on page 35 of the July 1983 issue of IEEE Spectrum magazine, the Bellmac1 -32, designed by Bell Laboratories, contains a "barrel switch". Robert S. Parnass Bell Laboratories Naperville, Illinois ihnp4!ihuxf!parnass __________ 1. Bellmac is a trademark of the Western Electric Company.