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I was reading another day about the PDP 11, and it is incredible how it looked much easier to program than an x86. Maybe we should go back in time and try to le
by coliveira 15y ago
I was reading another day about the PDP 11, and it is incredible how it looked much easier to program than an x86. Maybe we should go back in time and try to learn some of the forgotten tricks.
- chrisjsmith 15y agoARM is like that now (which was ironically invented by Acorn in the UK for the UK education market).
- coliveira 15y agoIn fact this explains a lot. Thanks for pointing it.
- FreeDonne 15y agoPDP-11 architecture is nice to implement in microcode, it's probably a little bit difficult to make it a RISC given that its power and simplicity comes from the elegant addressing modes encoding. The VAX was nice too, and the Tahoe/cci (kind of 3 address extension of the VAX IIRC).