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The advent of semiconductor memory reduced this difference, but it was still apparent that more registers ( and later caches ) would allow higher CPU operating frequencies.
Additional registers would require sizeable chip or board areas which, at the time ( 1975 ), could be made available if the complexity of the CPU logic was reduced.
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