12 Nov
2005
12 Nov
'05
2 p.m.
a.carlini at ntlworld.com wrote:
Vassilis Prevelakis wrote:
Of course, of course,
And no-one can talk to a VAX of course,
That is, of course, unless the VAX is the famou
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Hello?? The label says its a *MICRO*VAX, and if
its a uVAX, then its
not a mini. Also, calling the baby-sized uVAX a mini gives visitors
who may have never seen a mini-computer the wrong idea as to what a
mini-computer looks like. Sure I'll accept that its *compatible* with
a VAX (I'll even ignore the minor business of emulating a small part
of the instruction set :-), but is not a VAX.
I'd not call the MicroVAX a mini, but it *is* a VAX. The
architecture was subsetted to allow some latitude in
implementation, but user mode code did not need to
worry about that: the instructions still worked.
A VAX, is a VAX, is a VAX.