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From: Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: 26 Feb 2025 18:20:40 GMT
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On Wed, 26 Feb 2025 10:04:38 -0800, John Ames wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:13:35 -0500 c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
> 
>> > * (Having started on micros of the early '90s, the idea of a
>> > computing environment where assembly isn't just a systems-
>> > implementation thing but a first-class applications language is quite
>> > intriguing to me...)
>> 
>> Used to be a kinda main/common thing.
>> 
>> Compilers were new and expensive. Apps were still kinda small. So,
>> ASM was often The Way - and provided The Most fine control.
> 
> Indeed - and the architectures were designed to facilitate it. 'Course,
> as has been discussed, that eventually led to creeping featurism and
> terminal over-engineering and finally birthed RISC design, but it's
> interesting to think back on the period where there really was a happy
> medium...

One interesting tale about over-engineering (the VAX POLY instructions), 
from someone who really knows:

 http://simh.trailing-edge.com/docs/vax_poly.pdf

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