How to tell...

Paul Koning pkoning at equallogic.com
Tue Jun 21 09:16:40 CDT 2005


>>>>> "Johnny" == Johnny Billquist <bqt at Update.UU.SE> writes:

 Johnny> Mentec implemented one additional instruction that really is
 Johnny> useful, and which atleast RSX will use, if it finds it, and
 Johnny> that is a block copy instruction. I don't even know if it has
 Johnny> a mnemonic. Moving large chunks of memory is something the
 Johnny> systems does a lot in I/O, so that really helps if it can be
 Johnny> done faster.

Is that just the MOVC instruction (part of the CIS optional set) or
something else?  If CIS is present, RSTS will use MOVC for block move
automatically. 

	       paul



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