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From: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de>
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Subject: Re: is Vax addressing sane today
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2024 17:38:54 -0000 (UTC)
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Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> schrieb:
> Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> writes:
>>On Mon, 07 Oct 2024 07:17:02 GMT
>>anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) wrote:
>>
>>> 
>>> However, in John Mashey's criteria the number of registers plays a
>>> role; he requires >4 bits for the GPR specifier, and >3 bits for the
>>> FPR specifier.
>>> 
>>> - anton
>>
>>Which sounds rather arbitrary.
>
> In a way it is, but see below.
>
>>Or even worse, like if he wanted for
>>SPARC to be called 'typical RISC' and for ARM to be called atypical and
>>had chosen the numbers to match the agenda.
>
> I think that ARM did not exist for John Mashey.

When was his definition made?

ARM was rather late to the RISC game, this might have been literally
true.