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From: mwi... Mel Wilson
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 12:41

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In article <9lhg2s$gth$1...@hubcap.clemson.edu>,
ma...@hubcap.clemson.edu (Mark Smotherman) wrote:
>Perhaps you mean an instruction using indirection and then index tally words?
>I have a GE 635 manual to check the details if we can identify the instruction.
[ a summary of series 6000 features ]

Great chart.  I've saved it.  Thanks.

>Model designators for the Series 6000
>
>           non-EIS   EIS    EIS = extended instruction set,
>           -------  ----          supported business d.p. (COBOL)
>slower   /  6010    6020
> versions\  6030    6040
>standard    6050    6060
>w/cache     6070    6080

   The 6180 was also an EIS machine.  In fact the pointer
registers used by Multics for segment/offset addressing
were combined with the EIS address registers used for
word/character/bit addressing.

   I don't know if this fits with your over-all scheme; I'm
mentioning it just in case.

        Regards.        Mel.

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