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> The CRISP architecture was described as a "2½ address memory-to-memory machine", where instructions can employ zero, one, or two memory addresses and can empl
by formerly_proven 2y ago
> The CRISP architecture was described as a "2½ address memory-to-memory machine", where instructions can employ zero, one, or two memory addresses and can employ a stack entry called the accumulator for computation results.
Ewwww
This sounds like something from the 70s and not like a new architecture for a mid-1990s microprocessor - and indeed the 70s seems to be where the design actually came from.
- dfox 2y agoThe instruction encoding has strong S/360 feeling to it. Which is not necessarily a bad thing in itself.