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Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: VAX Architecture (Was: Re: Slandering Intel)
Message-ID: <3335@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jun 89 13:41:26 GMT
References: <76700071@p.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State U., E. Lansing MI
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in article <76700071@p.cs.uiuc.edu>, gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu says:
$ Nf-ID: #R:mipos3.intel.com:182:p.cs.uiuc.edu:76700071:000:1271
$ Nf-From: p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    Jun  5 16:33:00 1989
$ 
$ History's greatest mistakes give rise to history's greatest successes.
$ When there is failure (Multics, VAX architecture, i8086) it causes
$ fanatics to go 180 degrees in the other direction, often with good
$ results (Unix, RISC, Awesome 8x86 optimizing compiler technology).

Out of curiousity, and not trying to start a new religious war, what
about the VAX architecture do you consider a failure?

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