A hardware data string operation controller is provided which (1) performs variable length main store string operation; (2) executes at least a subset of both left to right and right to left instructions, having variable length multibyte operands; and (3) performs multicycle storage to storage operations...http://www.google.es/patents/US5168571?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatente US5168571 - System for aligning bytes of variable multi-bytes length operand based on alu byte length and a number of unprocessed byte data
System for aligning bytes of variable multi-bytes length operand based on ...