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From: lyricalnanoha@usotsuki.hoshinet.org (Steve Nickolas)
Subject: [TUHS] 2.11BSD cross compiler
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 05:17:33 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1009290516080.14504@ns305552.ovh.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100929023819.GA12919@bitmover.com>

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.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-29  3:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-28  5:54 Nick Downing
2010-09-29  0:24 ` Tim Newsham
2010-09-29  0:51   ` Larry McVoy
2010-09-29  2:14     ` John Cowan
2010-09-29  2:38       ` Larry McVoy
2010-09-29  2:59         ` John Cowan
2010-09-29  3:44           ` Larry McVoy
2010-09-30  4:22           ` [TUHS] PDP-8 (was: 2.11BSD cross compiler) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2010-09-30  4:53             ` John Cowan
2010-09-30 13:50             ` Larry McVoy
2010-10-02  3:46               ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2010-10-02 21:03                 ` Larry McVoy
2010-10-02 21:39                   ` [TUHS] PDP-8 M. Warner Losh
2010-10-02 10:06               ` [TUHS] PDP-8 (was: 2.11BSD cross compiler) Wolfgang Helbig
2010-09-29  3:14         ` [TUHS] 2.11BSD cross compiler M. Warner Losh
2010-09-29  3:17         ` Steve Nickolas [this message]
2010-09-29  3:55           ` Larry McVoy
2010-09-29  4:34             ` [TUHS] 6502 and swtch, was " Warren Toomey
2010-09-29  5:13               ` Steve Nickolas
2010-09-30 17:49               ` Tim Newsham
2010-09-29 20:54             ` [TUHS] " Peter Jeremy
2010-09-29 21:34               ` Larry McVoy
     [not found] <mailman.2278.1285732537.1039.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2010-09-29 16:20 ` John Finigan

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