From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Aug 9 2:15:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FC6A37B401; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 02:15:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA18324; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 11:15:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Mike Meyer Cc: Greg Lehey , tlambert2@mindspring.com, j mckitrick , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How did the MSFT monopoly start? References: <20010806142544.A64348@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <15214.52633.581653.632317@guru.mired.org> <3B6F98D0.A3C22CC9@mindspring.com> <20010808160551.Q78395@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3B7103A4.558B9B3B@mindspring.com> <15217.45815.8133.991656@guru.mired.org> <20010809130711.I73579@wantadilla.lemis.com> <15218.4851.592770.804113@guru.mired.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 09 Aug 2001 11:15:24 +0200 In-Reply-To: <15218.4851.592770.804113@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Meyer writes: > [...] The > address space was 32 bits - the top 8 got thrown away when you left > the CPU - and it didn't have special registers for addressing, so the > general registers had to be 32 bits wide and it had to have those 32 > bit operations. AFAIK, the 68k has separate data and address registers (d0-d7 and a0-a7 respectively) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message