Patent
1995-03-31
1997-03-11
Lall, Parshotam S.
395381, G06F 704
Patent
active
056110626
ABSTRACT:
Special millicode instructions accelerate the "inner loop" portion of a millicode routine to execute ESA/390 string instructions. Specifically, these millicode instructions are: Replicate Byte, Find Byte Equal, Find Byte Not Equal, Compare String Bytes instructions.
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IBM/TDB vol. 35 #4A pp. 451-454 (Milli-Code) 9/2 (Bullion, Chang, Meltzer, Nadas, Pedersen).
Conklin Christopher R.
Farrell Mark S.
Li Wen H.
Webb Charles F.
Augspurger Lynn L.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Lall Parshotam S.
Marhoefer Laurence J.
Winder Patrice L.
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