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On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 09:15:02 -0700, John Ames wrote:

> I've always found the 9900 concept interesting, although its core
> assumption about memory speed doesn't really hold up today; much of the
> architecture was eventually reincarnated in TI's MSP430 series micro-
> controllers, but they ditched the memory-resident register file. But for
> the time, context-switching certainly didn't get any faster than that;
> only three actual registers to save, but you still got a comfortably
> PDP-11ish environment from the programmer's perspective.

I worked on one project that used the 9900. Its claim to fame is TI had a 
rad hard version.