[Info-vax] Microsoft: Alpha architecture responsible for poor Windows file compression

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-11-02 22:43, Chris wrote:
> Apparently a red herring, even though early Alpha did not have byte
> operations. There's a thread running in comp.arch whci discussing
> the issue in detail...

Probably worth pointing out that while the first gen. Alpha lacked 
load/store byte/word operations, there was no problems fiddling around 
with bytes or bits in the registers.

One can discuss why the Alpha did not have those load/store instructions 
from the start, but DEC realized pretty soon that the omission was a 
mistake, and added them later on.

	Johnny