Re: Why VAX Was the Ultimate CISC and Not RISC

On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 22:42:02 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 11:15:06 -0700, Stephen Fuld wrote:
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A somewhat related question, if one wants to copy the contents of R3
into R2, is that a load or a store? :-)

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The true hardware engineer knows that it is neither, it is merely a
register rename. ;)

And a move of the pre-renamed register back to the free pool.