Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!not-for-mail From: John Levine Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Why VAX Was the Ultimate CISC and Not RISC Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:26:50 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Taughannock Networks Message-ID: References: <5e696219dedf30d0095dfd7671a4c87f@www.novabbs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:26:50 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="64183"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" In-Reply-To: <5e696219dedf30d0095dfd7671a4c87f@www.novabbs.org> Cleverness: some X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Originator: johnl@iecc.com (John Levine) It appears that Scott Lurndal 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. -- Regards, John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly