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As a practical matter, you also have to include the floating point chips -- each attached to a 32-bit slice of that data path with a custom glue chip (the "SPRINT chip", which also allowed a form of indirect addressing); this hardware may have been nominally optional, but I don't think many machines were sold without it.

There was also lower-level programming than Paris -- CMIS was given to customers and was a compiler target; there was also lower-level microcode.



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