Architectures with strict alignment?

Peter Jeremy peterjeremy at optushome.com.au
Sat Dec 29 23:59:40 PST 2007


On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 02:06:27PM -0800, Bakul Shah wrote:
>>                     (though the AMD29K could apparently generate
>> dummy bus cycles to limit the number of bit transitions on any cycle
>> to reduce the I/O load).
>
>Are you sure it was the amd29k?  I don't recall anything like
>that (and am too lazy to dig out its datasheets!).

Maybe I'm mis-remembering - it was a long time ago.  Other possibility
is the M88K.  I can't quickly find anything to backup my memory.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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