File:1991 SPARC Anant Robert Paper.pdf

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SPARC technical paper: A number of new features were introduced at the time by SPARC and specifically aimed at returning performance - a high business value. The architecture was licensed by numerous companies specifically because of the performance delivered along with the robustness of UNIX. In this article a number of innovative features were explained. This included, Register windows, Co-processor instruction support, 14 basic floating point instructions supporting IEEE formats, and most importantly multiprocessing support. All of these put SPARC on top.

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current23:28, 22 November 2013 (4.62 MB)Ukapoor (talk | contribs)SPARC technical paper: A number of new features were introduced at the time by SPARC and specifically aimed at returning performance - a high business value. The architecture was licensed by numerous companies specifically because of the performance deliv