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From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
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Subject: Re: Why VAX Was the Ultimate CISC and Not RISC
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2025 08:06:08 GMT
Organization: Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
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Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> writes:
>The VAX is still supported with gcc and binutils, with newlib as
>its C library, so building up a tool chain for assembly/disassembly
>should be doable with a few (CPU) hours; you can then compare
>sizes.

Good.  While the CPU hours are not the problem, I cannot spare the
human hours for such a project.

- anton
-- 
'Anyone trying for "industrial quality" ISA should avoid undefined behavior.'
  Mitch Alsup, <c17fcd89-f024-40e7-a594-88a85ac10d20o@googlegroups.com>