[Info-vax] Three boot camp sessions on YouTube

[John Reagan]

On Tuesday, October 11, 2016 at 2:44:10 PM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2016-10-07, Camiel Vanderhoeven <> 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.
> 

Don't forget VAX vector registers and the additional instructions.  I view them as the early equivalent of the x86 XMM register set and beyond.

However, yes, the separate floating point processing model is not VAX-like at all.