From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] Need a new PDP-11 or VAX?
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 09:53:38 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1304280931420.36897@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130427224146.GR664@bitmover.com>
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On Sat, 27 Apr 2013, Larry McVoy wrote:
> What I'd like is a new 64 bit PDP-11. That assembler was wonderful to
> read and write, only a short distance from C.
Sounds like the same concept as PL/360 (not to be confused with APL\360).
> x86 makes me puke.
x86 should've been drowned at birth.
> MIPS
> and Alpha aren't much better (I was hoping for better from Alpha but they
> seemed like they copied MIPS).
I believe you're right.
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-27 23:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-27 21:26 Dave Horsfall
2013-04-27 22:41 ` Larry McVoy
2013-04-27 23:53 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2013-04-28 0:12 ` Ronald Natalie
2013-04-28 1:39 ` John Cowan
2013-04-28 3:38 ` Nick Downing
2013-04-28 3:48 ` Larry McVoy
2013-04-28 3:57 ` Larry McVoy
2013-04-28 5:57 ` John Cowan
2013-04-28 5:34 ` [TUHS] curmudgeon credit Aharon Robbins
2013-04-28 7:08 ` Nick Downing
2013-05-14 6:11 ` Aaron J. Grier
2013-05-14 6:52 ` emu
2013-05-14 7:51 ` David Evans
2013-04-28 16:28 ` Larry McVoy
2013-04-28 7:45 ` [TUHS] Need a new PDP-11 or VAX? Peter Jeremy
2013-04-28 10:50 ` Ronald Natalie
2013-04-28 0:15 ` Ronald Natalie
[not found] <mailman.3.1367200802.17183.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2013-04-29 23:19 ` David Barto
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