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Subject: Re: PDP11s vs the micros
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Speaking of double-indirect, tektronix!tekecs!jans said:
> 				  My only wish is that Nati had given all the
> general purpose registers this facility, so I wouldn't have to shuffle the
> SP or FP around so much!

Hmm.  You mean the totally orthagonal wonderful National architecture
has a few warts after all?

Lemme see, I seem to remember something about bit fields can't lay across
more than four bytes...e.g. you can only put a 32-bit bitfield on a
byte boundary.

Don't tell their marketing folks...