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The article is specifically talking about how the phrase "special register groups" has been picked up and included in the definition of a CPU in computer archit
by psanford 7y ago
The article is specifically talking about how the phrase "special register groups" has been picked up and included in the definition of a CPU in computer architecture text books over the past 60 years. Its clearly not trying to make any sort of statement about how we teach computers to elementary school children.
- jolmg 7y agoAt least to me it's not inconceivable that somewhere along the line of people writing definitions basing themselves on other definitions they see, that someone saw that people defined CPUs as including main storage and although it may or may not have seemed weird to them, they might have included it in their own definition, thereby mixing both meanings of CPU.