29 Sep
2010
29 Sep
'10
9:17 a.m.
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Larry McVoy wrote:
Color me old school. I like MIPS, I worked at SGI
(got married to
an old school MIPS gal) but PDP-11 is so frigging intuitive. How
can you not understand that instruction set? If you can't, well,
sorry, not so much in my book. It's like a stripped down C.
Come on - has anyone ever seen a better instruction set? More
complicated, yeah, holy moly, yeah. But cleaner? We owe DEC
for that one.
Dunno, the only instruction set I really grok is 65C02, which is by your
standards probably little more than a toy.
-uso.