transputer internals (was Re: Pentium for Non-PC)

[Ram Meenakshisundaram]

Its lddevid.  Look at the startup code (bootstrap) in the C compiler and/or OCCAM compiler to see how it is used...

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Subject: RE: transputer internals (was Re: Pentium for Non-PC)



Its undocumented...


Ram

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On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Ram Meenakshisundaram wrote:

> On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Alexey Toptygin wrote:
>
>> unfortunately there was no "what family member am I running on"
>> instruction.
>
> That is not entirely true.  There are instructions that gives it back on
> later versions of the transputer.  Can't remember off the top of my head
> right now though....

Really? I've read my copy of "Transputer Instruction Set: A Compiler
Writer's Guide" cover to cover, and I don't recall such an instruction.
I think there's one that lets you load the address of the bottom of
on-chip RAM, but that won't distinguish the other features...

                        Alexey