[Info-vax] Three boot camp sessions on YouTube

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-10-07, Camiel Vanderhoeven <iamcamiel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Well, there are similarities and differences between x86 and all of
> the previous architectures:
>
> x86 is a lot like VAX when you look at its instruction set

Except of course (as you also pointed out in one of the videos)
the x86 has lots of special purpose registers unlike the VAX where
the registers are general purpose registers.

I've done x86 assembly language programming in the past. It wasn't
a pleasant experience, especially when compared to the likes of
ARM or even (to a lesser extent) MIPS.

BTW, I noticed on one of your graphs that you have MIPS marked as
EOL. Has MIPS development actually ceased now (because I'm still
seeing it around in various places) ?

Microchip still have the PIC32 range which are low end MIPS cores.

Simon.

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