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12 Aug 2024 19:32:53 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Improving POV-Ray.  
From: Rudy Velthuis
Date: 19 Feb 1999 18:31:11
Message: <36cdf43f.0@news.povray.org>
portelli schrieb in Nachricht <36CD28A6.48AB9F3E@pilot.msu.edu>...
>It would become platform dependent.  I know that Sparc asm and MIPS asm
>are different.  The destination registers are in different places in
>notation I think.  I don't even know about Intel, isn't there just one
>register and the accumelator.  Yuck.  I like thre registers.

I think you're confusing the current PCs with the Apple ][ <g>.

A modern Intel CPU has more than one register and can use more than one
register to do calculations.

But of course, assembler is (most of the time) different on different CPUs.
--
Rudy Velthuis


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