AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE INTEL IAPX 432
Abstract
This note describes salient architectural features of the
Intel iAPX 432, a recent, innovative, microprocessor design. It is
intended as a companion to a recently-published paper (Witten, 1981)
which surveys the architectures of the new generation of 16-bit
microprocessors, but which was written prior to the announcement of the
iAPX 432. The novelty of the new processor lies chiefly in its
sophisticated segmentation structure and the design of its instruction
set; these are covered in a tutorial fashion and related to
earlier developments in computer architecture.
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