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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Why VAX Was the Ultimate CISC and Not RISC Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2025 17:57:37 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien Lines: 12 Message-ID: <2025Mar3.185737@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> References: <vpufbv$4qc5$1@dont-email.me> <2025Mar1.125817@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <vpvrn5$2hq0$1@gal.iecc.com> <2025Mar1.232526@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <vq0gfd$g1o3$3@dont-email.me> <2025Mar2.141932@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <vq2jnk$v1q6$7@dont-email.me> Injection-Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2025 19:01:17 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="02abba070423f036a0c54aba275aea87"; logging-data="1489792"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1//JsRH+q9HtPfiiTZObDer" Cancel-Lock: sha1:j//8n5AxDk4h2UZRW87G6fxgLkg= X-newsreader: xrn 10.11 Bytes: 1615 Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes: >Note that the “big bang” arrival of RISC in the >latter 1980s is pretty much in agreement with his timeline. Correlation does not prove causation. And when the facts (performance of cacheless and small-cache RISCs) are counterevidence of his explanation, his explanation is obviously wrong. - anton -- 'Anyone trying for "industrial quality" ISA should avoid undefined behavior.' Mitch Alsup, <c17fcd89-f024-40e7-a594-88a85ac10d20o@googlegroups.com>