Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cmcl2.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!philabs!cmcl2!gottlieb From: gottlieb@cmcl2.UUCP (Allan Gottlieb) Newsgroups: net.arch Subject: Re: RISC Message-ID: <821@cmcl2.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 08:58:55 EDT Article-I.D.: cmcl2.821 Posted: Tue Jul 9 08:58:55 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jul-85 04:21:56 EDT References: <639@vax2.fluke.UUCP> <2743@nsc.UUCP> Reply-To: gottlieb@cmcl2.UUCP (Allan Gottlieb) Organization: New York University Lines: 12 Summary: Yes the 6600 was a poor architecture for saving all the registers, but it did multiply fast :-). We are acutally quite fond of the convoluted code sequence that you mentioned since it was discovered here when we had an early timesharing system for the 6600. Allan Gottlieb GOTTLIEB@NYU {floyd,ihnp4}!cmcl2!gottlieb <---the character before the 2 is an el -- Allan Gottlieb GOTTLIEB@NYU {floyd,ihnp4}!cmcl2!gottlieb <---the character before the 2 is an el