On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org> wrote:
Since I cowrote the Alpha assembler for Windows NT and Tru64 Unix. Most > of the RISC chips had a large number of general purpose registers. The > trick is to use them effectively. You can easily use one as a base > register and one as an index register. Octal and Hex are just shorthand > notations for expressing binary. In the early days of computing things > were not standardized. For instance, the DEC PGP-8 was a 12-bit machine. > Octal was much more convenient for PDP-8s. Systems based on the byte > generally use hex. I would expect that some of the new processors have > some form of virtualization manager. Can you see Intel chips with a > VMWare supervisor and AMD chips with a Microsoft Hyper V. > Guess, it is inside the 'Assembly language' talk! -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia
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