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From: Stephen Fuld <sfuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Why VAX Was the Ultimate CISC and Not RISC
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 12:08:37 -0700
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On 3/12/2025 1:02 AM, Anton Ertl wrote:
> Stephen Fuld <sfuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> writes:
>> 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
>> that when hardware guys see the instruction, they think in terms of
>> register ports (read versus write), what is required of the memory
>> system (somewhat different for loads versus stores), etc.  However
>> software guys think of a language construct, e.g. X = Y, which is
>> logically a move.  I don't know if this is right, but I think it is
>> interesting.
> 
> I am a software person.  When talking about register-memory copies, I
> prefer to talk about load and store operations, whether I talk about
> assembly language (even one where the mnemonic for these operations is
> MOV) or C; in Forth the spoken names for these operations are "fetch"
> (written: @) and "store" (written: !).


snipped lots of interesting history.  A good counterpoint to my 
assertion.  Thanks Anton.


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  - Stephen Fuld
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