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From: mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1)
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Subject: Re: Why VAX Was the Ultimate CISC and Not RISC
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:42:19 +0000
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On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 22:42:02 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 11:15:06 -0700, Stephen Fuld wrote:
>
>> A somewhat related question, if one wants to copy the contents of R3
>> into R2, is that a load or a store? :-)
>
> The true hardware engineer knows that it is neither, it is merely a
> register rename. ;)

And a move of the pre-renamed register back to the free pool.