[Info-vax] Dvorak on Itanic

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Tom Linden <tom at kednos.company> wrote:
(big snip)
 
> I have worked with quite a variety of instructions over the last 40 years
> and there is none better than VAX, IMO.  As for risc Mips was probably the
> best of that ilk, Power PC is a hybrid instruction set and is quite well
> designed, specifically they considered how to run legacy code as well.  The
> alpha designers were quite cavalier, one even told me once when I  
> criticised

For assembly programming, VAX was pretty nice.  But not so
many people do (or did when VAX was popular) assembly programming.

-- glen