Peter Relson wrote, in part: >the part about regs 8-15 bytes 0-7 is related to the fact that the VR >storage overlaps the FPR storage.
Peter, I expect I'm not the only one who's amazed by this. Not that I know enough to have a valid opinion, just that in this modren age of cheap memory etc., it seems surprising that these would overlap. Do you know why this was done? Is it something that could be "fixed" in a later machine, or is it now baked into the ecosystem and thus basically how it's gonna be forever? ...phsiii (who acknowledges that his questions sound very normative)
