[Info-vax] Three boot camp sessions on YouTube

[John Reagan]

On Friday, October 7, 2016 at 7:34:44 AM UTC-4, Neil Rieck wrote:
> On Thursday, October 6, 2016 at 8:48:11 AM UTC-4, Camiel Vanderhoeven wrote:
> > I've made three of my sessions (slides + audio) at this year's boot camp available on YouTube.
> > 
> > Here's the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwebt4CzDP_hT2rHCm8SwL0k1FZ9aAAsA
> > 
> > Sessions available are:
> > 
> > Software Engineering, the VMS Way, session 10072
> > Introduction to the x86 Architecture, session 10084 (re-recorded audio)
> > Interesting x86-64 Features, session 10090
> > 
> > Enjoy!
> > 
> > Camiel
> 
> Hey, thanks for this. The Intro to x86 may convince some that x86 is not really that much different than AXP/IA64
> 

Actually it is quite different.  Alpha/Itanium are load/store instruction sets.  All operations are performed on registers.  x86 (and VAX) has lots more addressing modes and allows operations to be performed directly on memory locations.  Fortunately for 99% of people, the compilers hide all of that from you.