[Info-vax] OT: news from the trenches (re: Solaris)

[Richard Maher]

On 3/12/2015 9:08 AM, John Reagan wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 7:21:05 PM UTC-4, Richard Maher wrote:
>> On 3/12/2015 7:03 AM, johnson.eric at gmail.com wrote:
>>> Yes it has become
>>> complicated, but 30+ years of success against a forever changing landscape will do that.
>>
>> What? Compared to EPIC?
>>
>> I'd be interested in what JR thinks but IMHO he'd be getting his jollies
>> back on a CISC chip.
>
> Instruction sets don't really do much for me anymore.  So many of them...

> CDC 6500, Z80, PDP-11, PDP-8 (does that count, there are so few?) PDP-10,

> VAX, Mips, Alpha, PRISM, Itanium, x86, PA-RISC, etc.
>

Sometimes I feel like I don't know you at all.


Maybe it's more like Bobby than JR anyway? After an entire series of 
RISC and EPIC Pam returns to the shower to find CISC's been there all 
the time and it was all just a dream.

PS. Empathy, empathy, empathy, Thunderbird, thunderbird, thunderbird