[net.arch] condition codes

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
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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