The VAX (John Mashey, 2005)
From: "John Mashey" <[email protected]> Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Code density and performance? Date: 22 Jul 2005 00:30:56 -0700 Message-ID: <[email protected]> Tom Linden wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 12:07:33 -0700, glen herrmannsfeldt > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > That was 1986, though I don't believe VAX was a viable architecture > > by 1996, even though it wasn't out of address bits. > > It certainly could have been viable, had DEC