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The UNIVAC 1100 machines didn't put registers in memory; they just allowed programs to reference them via memory addresses. This removed the need for register-to-register instructions.


1100/10 used main memory (plated wire) for the registers. 1101, 1102, and 1108 may have but I can't say for certain. 1100/80 definately use registers in the CPU and redirected matching memory addresses to the registers.


That is what the two above postings said, too. Or at least I understood them to say that.




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