[rescue] SS10/20 death

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 05:39:46PM -0500, dave at cca.org wrote:
> mcguire at neurotica.com writes:
> 
> >  Seriously though, my comments were about the SM100 in particular,
> >definitely not SPARCs in general.  SPARC is a wonderful architecture;
> >elegant and worthy of study and respect.
> 
> Do you think the SPARC's register windows were a good idea? (For a
> general purpose unix box, that is.)

I would have thought that they would be good for lisp execution (and proper
unix box does lots of lisp, right?), but the reports are that the windows
and tagged instructions are fairly worthless.  Oh well.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd