8 Aug
2006
8 Aug
'06
10:36 p.m.
On Tuesday 08 August 2006 09:11 pm, Scott Quinn wrote:
Ok, I'm not at all familiar with this hardware, so maybe I'm a little
unclear when it comes to what you're talking about here -- you like the CPU
but don't like the bus? Or is that something else?
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
The best
processor is going to be different based on the person
you are talking to. Everyone has their own idea as to what
features are important, and fond old memories of working on
an ancient (wasn't then) OS tend to sway their decision.
That was implied, but I'll reiterate: What platform (includes
implementation) do you think was really neat and why.
P.S. The VAX had problems quote was mostly to illustrate that all computers
can be dissed. Somebody asked why: mostly implementation. The original VAX
was very instruction-heavy, but DEC did it right and started offloading to
"heavy microcode" (read emulator). However, some VAXen designed in 1992
were still using Q-bus for main expansion. 'Nuff said. Implementation.
There are other little bits like this.