Sujet : Re: Why VAX Was the Ultimate CISC and Not RISC
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.archDate : 08. Mar 2025, 01:57:13
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On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 17:35:57 +0000, MitchAlsup1 wrote:
On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 4:09:13 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In a way, one could say that, in many ways, VAX machine language was a
higher-level language than Fortran.
One could also say at that point in time that FORTRAN was not that high
of a high level language.
It was to most people of the time, particularly in the USA.