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

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In article <nvi4rf$27i$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
>On 2016-11-02 22:43, Chris wrote:
>> Apparently a red herring, even though early Alpha did not have byte
>> operations. There's a thread running in comp.arch whci discussing
>> the issue in detail...
>
>Probably worth pointing out that while the first gen. Alpha lacked 
>load/store byte/word operations, there was no problems fiddling around 
>with bytes or bits in the registers.

That's the ONLY way you can fiddle around with bytes or bits on Alpha.

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