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- From: Bob_Beckwith@NeXT.COM (Bob Beckwith)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: Machines with cond. assignment instruction?
- Message-ID: <6346@rosie.NeXT.COM>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 21:22:35 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.163607.31684@watson.ibm.com>
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- Reply-To: Bob_Beckwith@NeXT.COM (Bob Beckwith)
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- In article <1993Jan21.163607.31684@watson.ibm.com> pradeep@watson.ibm.com
- (Pradeep Dubey) writes:
- > Are there announced machines (specially micros) with
- > some conditional assignment instruction. I mean
- > instruction such as the following:
- >
- > MovCond R1, R2, R3 /* if (c1) R1 <- R2 else R1 <- R3 */
- >
- > where, c1 refers to some result of some previous compare.
- >
- > Any pointers to such machines or any quantitative evaluation
- > of usefulness of this instruction in the specific context
- > of some machine would be appreciated.
-
- Unless I'm mistaken, the Multiflow Trace machines had conditional assignment
- instructions. While you certainly wouldn't classify them as micros, they're
- there (or at least were, at one point :-( ). Any ex-Multifloyd's out there
- (DBP? PKR?) might be able to provide more information.
-
- --Bob
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