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So VMS has gone full circle in terms of target architecture type. CISC (VAX) -> RISC (Alpha) -> VLIW (IA-64) -> CISC (x86).
by jabl 6y ago
So VMS has gone full circle in terms of target architecture type. CISC (VAX) -> RISC (Alpha) -> VLIW (IA-64) -> CISC (x86).
- doctor_eval 6y agoSo... given what’s happened to most of those architectures, should we take it as a bad omen that it’s been ported to x86?
- als0 6y agoYes!
- boring_twenties 6y agoSounds like a great omen to me.
- doctor_eval 6y agoWell yes I should have said “a bad omen for x86”. I’ve never been a fan of the ISA but then the last time I tried it was 8086... Let’s just hope they don’t port OpenVMS to ARM and RISC-V :)