Novice question.

Jim Keane -- Software jkeane at titan.uucp
Sat Nov 17 01:57:00 AEST 1990


In article <11476 at j.cc.purdue.edu> zhou at brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Albert Zhou) writes:
>
>   Registers reside within CPU and certainly are accessed much more efficiently,but I just cannot help thinking how silly we are to be content with such a
>limited number of registers. When CPU was originally designed decades ago,
>it was very costly to increase the size of CPU. Today, we still stick to
>a single small-size CPU with no reason. It's high time for a revolution.
>How many people can envision a microcomputer with thousands of big CPU, each
>having thousands of registers?

Have you ever heard of the Harvard Architecture?



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