Sujet : Re: architectural goals, Byte Addressability And Beyond
De : already5chosen (at) *nospam* yahoo.com (Michael S)
Groupes : comp.archDate : 03. Jun 2024, 11:08:21
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On Mon, 3 Jun 2024 09:20 +0100 (BST)
jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) wrote:
In article <2024Jun3.074750@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>,
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) wrote:
SPARCs are big-endian and trap on unaligned access (at least that
was the case when I last used one long ago), while S/370 ff. does
not trap on unaligned access.
OK, that shoots down S/370 for this job.
John
What exactly is a job?
Is it for pure personal amusement or there are practical needs?