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rastakins said...

Apparently the Honeywell 800 was not alone in its use of "special register groups" but these registers were not called that by other manufacturer. The class of machine that swapped its architectural state every cycle was called a "barrel processor."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_processor

Aug 28, 2023, 1:01:01 AM

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