Re: Why VAX Was the Ultimate CISC and Not RISC

On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 16:53 +0000 (GMT Standard Time), John Dallman wrote:

According to Wikipedia, PC/IX cost $900 and was released
in 1984. By that time, there was a lot of business software and games
available for DOS, but presumably, very little for PC/IX?

How would you have done games without being able to directly address
screen memory? I’m sure PC/IX, being a Unix-type system, would have
disallowed that. And X11 hadn’t even been developed yet.