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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: except what, is Vax addressing sane today
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:29:40 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:14:12 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote:

> But you are in general right, it makes more sense to keep the computer
> running in the normal case and provide slow ways to recover from
> failures and do something else.

Aren’t branches that are not taken supposed to be fast?