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From: phil@UX1.CSO.UIUC.EDU (Phil Howard KA9WGN)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.asm370
Subject: Re: disabling CTRL-BREAK (dos)
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Date: 25 May 91 04:26:55 GMT
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In comp.lang.asm370 you write:

>Why would you wish that IBM mainframes were the brain-dead architecture
>that the PC uses?  You need the '386 before you can truly multitask safely,
>and even if a 386 *can* go at 15MIPS, it's still useless because it
>spends 12 of them doing loads and stores out of the 4 registers...

BTW, the 486 does not have this problem.  It caches internally in such
a way that load and store take less than a cycle (if there is a hit in
the internal cache).

I'd much rather use some of the other processors anyway, such as 680x0,
88000, 80860, etc.  I'm not a particular fan of RISC machines, but they
are OK.  Actually the 360/370 architecture is not all that far from what
RISC turns out to be.  VAXen are a mess.
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