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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: Why VAX Was the Ultimate CISC and Not RISC
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:26:50 -0000 (UTC)
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It appears that Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net> said:
>>I wonder if the different preferences is at least partially due to 
>>whether the person has a hardware or a software background?  The idea is 
>
>I think it may depend on first experiences with assembler language; 

Absolutely.  My first assembler was PDP-8, where nothing has more than
one operand.  Next was S/360 where the result goes first, e.g. LR R1,R2
copies R2 into R1.  Next was PDP=11 where MOV R1,R2 copies R1 into R2.

So I think they're all about equally bad.  People should get over it.
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