5 Oct
2007
5 Oct
'07
10:57 a.m.
Could the PDP-10 instruction set have been simplified
for a faster
machine. Mind you I think you would still be stuck with 18bit address
because of LISP and having two addresses in one word.
Of course, any architecture could get a speed boost when you start
pruning out those pesky instructions.
PDP-10 was pretty clean, actually.
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Will