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From: mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1)
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Subject: Re: Why VAX Was the Ultimate CISC and Not RISC
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On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 19:07:08 +0000, moi wrote:

> On 11/03/2025 18:15, Stephen Fuld wrote:
>
>>
>> I wonder if the different preferences is at least partially due to
>> whether the person has a hardware or a software background?  The idea is
>> that when hardware guys see the instruction, they think in terms of
>> register ports (read versus write), what is required of the memory
>> system (somewhat different for loads versus stores), etc.  However
>> software guys think of a language construct, e.g. X = Y, which is
>> logically a move.  I don't know if this is right, but I think it is
>> interesting.
>
> No, it is logically a copy.

But does it copy X into Y or copy Y into X ??