Sujet : Re: Why VAX Was the Ultimate CISC and Not RISC
De : usenet (at) *nospam* em-ess-see-twenty-seven.me.uk (MarkC)
Groupes : comp.archDate : 03. Mar 2025, 13:43:51
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Anton Ertl <
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> writes:
How was the code density?
>
I have no data on that. Interestingly, unlike the 68k, which was
outcompeted by RISCs at around the same time, the VAX did not have an
afterlife of hobbyists who produced Linux and Debian ports, so I
cannot easily make a comparison.
NetBSD still has a VAX port, so the sizes of pre-built packages from
there might be informative.