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Subject: Re: My 66000 and High word facility
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On 2024-08-11 17:33, Anton Ertl wrote:
> Brett <ggtgp@yahoo.com> writes:
>> The lack of CPU’s with 64 registers is what makes for a market, that 4%
>> that could benefit have no options to pick from.
> 
> They had:
> 
> SPARC: Ok, only 32 GPRs available at a time, but more in hardware
> through the Window mechanism.

SPARC also has 32 separate floating-point registers, not windowed.