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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Why VAX Was the Ultimate CISC and Not RISC
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2025 23:29:12 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 16:53 +0000 (GMT Standard Time), John Dallman wrote:

> According to Wikipedia, PC/IX cost $900 and was released
> in 1984. By that time, there was a lot of business software and games
> available for DOS, but presumably, very little for PC/IX?

How would you have done games without being able to directly address 
screen memory? I’m sure PC/IX, being a Unix-type system, would have 
disallowed that. And X11 hadn’t even been developed yet.