[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

[Bob Koehler]

In article <mddskbqa0oi.fsf at panix5.panix.com>, Rich Alderson <news at alderson.users.panix.com> writes:
> 
> You're probably talking about the PDP-14 and PDP-16, and you're right, I didn't
> count them as separate computer architectures.  I still don't.  If instead you
> are counting the minimal variations among members of those families as separate
> architectures, then we have a fundamental disagreement on what that word means
> in this context, and have nothing substantial to discuss.

   I was aware that the word sizes were often common, but I'm under the
   impression there were variations in the register sets and/or
   instruction sets.  If those were minor, then I'd agree they were the 
   same architecture.