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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 12, 1996
Peter Washington, Little Mountain, SC (US);
Richard R Barton, Lexington, SC (US);
NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH (US);
Abstract
A method and computer system are disclosed for executing family generic, processor specific files. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method of executing a file on a computer system. The method includes the computer implemented steps of determining the processor type of a processor; storing a processor type identifier that represents the determined processor type of the processor; executing a first plurality of instructions that includes instructions exclusively from a common set of instructions that are common to a plurality of processor types; executing a second plurality of instructions that is optimized for a first processor type, if the processor type identifier indicates that the processor is of the first processor type; and executing a third plurality of instructions that includes instructions exclusively from the common set of instructions, if the processor type identifier indicates the processor is of a type different than the first processor type.