7 Aug
2006
7 Aug
'06
11:36 a.m.
On Monday 07 August 2006 12:18 pm, Scott Quinn wrote:
Segin, now you're trolling. Do you suspect that we
can't list the
shortcomings of VAX just as easily as the shortcomings of x86? They pulled
alot over from the PDP-11 that should have been reimplemented for a 32-bit
arch...
Can you elaborate on this a bit? I know very little about a lot of the
different architectures and the only thing I know about the VAX as compared
to the PDP-11 is that it deals with more memory...
Could them pulling that stuff over have been some kind of an attempt to re-use
existing code?
On the positive side, what is the most perfect
computer architecture +
implementation people have come across here? Tell us why, especially if
it's something like PERQ or Acorn RISC/pc that is not common outside of a
limited geographic area.
An interesting question and I will be looking forward to seeing some of the
replies. :-)
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