Novice question.

[Henry Spencer]

In article <11476 at j.cc.purdue.edu> zhou at brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Albert Zhou) writes:
>... I just cannot help thinking how silly we are to be content with such a
>limited number of registers...

Well, some of us aren't silly.  My favorite CPU has 192 registers, give
or take a few.  (It's the AMD 29000, in case anyone is curious.)  The
silly people are the ones who blindly buy PC compatibles.
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