marick@ccvaxa.UUCP (02/07/86)
I am looking for a paper whose thesis was that condition codes are useless, an anachronism. It's a few years old. If you know its title, author, place of publication, please mail me. Thanks. Brian Marick, Wombat Consort Gould Computer Systems -- Urbana ...ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!marick ARPA: Marick@GSWD-VMS
wallach@convexs.UUCP (02/10/86)
there was a paper published in the 5 th. annual symposium on computer architecture. pages 190-194 by robert russell. the title was "The PDP-11", A Case study of HOW NOT to design condition codes. this is probably the paper that you want good luck convex!wallach