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From: mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1)
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Subject: Re: except what, is Vax addressing sane today
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2024 02:23:12 +0000
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On Sun, 22 Sep 2024 2:09:29 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Sep 2024 01:24:05 +0000, MitchAlsup1 wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 22 Sep 2024 0:14:49 +0000, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
>>
>>> On 9/21/2024 4:29 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>
>>> Well, they are not taken, so they should be faster... ;^)
>>
>> It is NOT the speed, it is the code bloat.
>
> That’s an argument against RISC though, isn’t it?

Yes, and that is why my RISC ISA has VAX instruction count
while having the pipelineability of MIPS.