1 Dec
2014
1 Dec
'14
7:03 p.m.
On 12/01/2014 11:32 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
but my sense
now, looking back, was that it was one of that wave of machines (the VAX being
the other notable one) that went down the CISC road just before RISC arrived,
and showed that CISC was not really the way to go; those systems were all
dinosaurs.
It was certainly a CISC design, and probably not as clean as
the VAX architecture
(although the number of addressing options on the VAX may
have gone off the
deep end also).
Jon