Re: Broken instruction pre-fetch hueristics on the 7030?

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From: Boyd Roberts
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 1990 01:36

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Didn't the CRISP (develloped at Bell Labs) have a branch direction bit?
The upshot being that most of the time the branch direction was wrong.
So negating the logic proved a big win.


Boyd Roberts			bo...@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au

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