henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (11/13/90)
In article <1990Nov12.173728.20026@mozart.amd.com> brett@cayman.amd.com (Brett Stewart) writes: >Many customers of our AMD 29K are interested in preserving old binaries >of CISC machines by using a pure-software, or hardware-assisted >technique to allow them to execute on the 29K. I believe the >preference for the 29K architecture for this (and hence the >relevance of this posting) is due to the ability of the 29K to store >a model of the 'volatile state' of the guest architecture in its >capacious register file and still have enough room left over ... "Capacious"? Try "cavernous" (which is how I read the above line on first glance)! :-) :-) -- "I don't *want* to be normal!" | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology "Not to worry." | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry