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Re: Circular stacks on F21


On Sun, 11 Jun 1995, Jeff Fox wrote:

> I have been testing F21 in the OKAD simulator.  F21 has an array of
> 16 stack registers that are circular.  

Does the circularity serve any design goal, or is it a by-product of other
design decisions? 

I wold suppose that the stack elements are laid out linearly, with S0
very far from S16. Now, to achieve circularity, one has to run wires all
the way up to connect them. Is there any reason for doing so?

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