[Info-vax] Microsoft: Alpha architecture responsible for poor Windows file compression

John Reagan xyzzy1959 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 2 17:42:14 EDT 2016

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It is shocking that a RISC machine didn't have bit twiddling instructions?

EV56 added the byte and word memory operations but didn't add any sort of 'bit' instructions.

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