Re: [opensuse] CPU: higher clock speed or more cores? and: ksysguard possible CPU usage bug?

James Knott said the following on 01/15/2012 11:33 AM:
The only CPU that I can think of that didn't have some sort of register
for such operations was (IIRC) the Texas Instruments 9900 series which
did everything in memory locations.

There was also a Ferranti microprocessor in the late 70s that didn't
have a register-as-we-think-of-registers. It was essentially a 1-bit
machine that streamed. We never tried it so I don't know how it handled
addressing, but everything else seemed to be memory-to-memory.
I never did hear of any applications using it, but Ferranti had enough
political lobbyist leverage that they scotched other standards projects
that were going on in the UK about that time. But then along came the
IBM PC ....
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