Re: is Vax addressing sane today

Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> schrieb:

Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> writes:

On Mon, 07 Oct 2024 07:17:02 GMT
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) wrote:
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However, in John Mashey's criteria the number of registers plays a
role; he requires >4 bits for the GPR specifier, and >3 bits for the
FPR specifier.
 
- anton

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Which sounds rather arbitrary.

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In a way it is, but see below.
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Or even worse, like if he wanted for
SPARC to be called 'typical RISC' and for ARM to be called atypical and
had chosen the numbers to match the agenda.

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I think that ARM did not exist for John Mashey.

When was his definition made?

ARM was rather late to the RISC game, this might have been literally
true.