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From: kjm@ut-emx.UUCP
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Subject: Re: CDC nostalgia
Summary: Huh?
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Date: 30 Mar 90 00:03:31 GMT
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In article <1990Mar29.164944.19446@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, riordanmr@clvax1.cl.msu.
edu (Mark Riordan) writes:
> Whoops--my previous message got garbled.  I said:
> 
> The 6600 was a RISC machine in my opinion--but it could easily have
> gotten by with fewer instructions--especially some of those fancy 
> addressing modes.

Huh?  *What* fancy addressing modes?  I'd not label the increment-unit
instructions that way.  Why do you?

> The Cyber 70 series (with byte-oriented string instructions) was
> an embarrassment.

Right.  Obviously somebody thought the gadgetry would sell...

--
The above viewpoints are mine.  They are unrelated to those of
anyone else, including my wife, our cats, and my employer.

Kenneth J. Montgomery               Senior Operating System Specialist
kjm@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu          University of Texas System
                                    Center for High-Performance Computing