[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

[Dan Cross]

In article <u9tmug$1sfk2$1 at dont-email.me>,
Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>On 2023-07-26, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 7/26/2023 8:14 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> On 2023-07-25, Chris Townley <news at cct-net.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> Never used macro32 - I gave up any low level language after playing with
>>>> Zilog Z80 code in the early 80s
>>> 
>>> Of all the assembly languages I have used (PDP-11, VAX, Alpha, x86, MIPS,
>>> ARM, Z80, 8-bit PIC, plus various historical others), I found traditional
>>> full ARM to be by far the nicest and 8-bit PIC was easily the most ugly.
>>
>> "nicest" in what way?
>>
>
>As Scott points out the traditional ARM architecture is very elegant.
>
>> Traditionally VAX and M68K has been considered the most high level
>> and requiring least lines of code per functionality.
>>
>
>M68K I can't talk about because I never used it. That's why I limited
>my comment above to the assembly languages I do know.

M68k was (is?) very nice, but the distinction between data and
address registers is mildly annoying.  It would have been nicer
to just have 16 GP registers, but they saved a bit in the
instruction coding by splitting things into 8 each.

	- Dan C.