On 02/10/2009 04:55 PM, Jack Schneider wrote:
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:45:49 -0600
Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@cox.net> wrote:
On 02/10/2009 12:32 PM, Mark Allums wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
Readability and maintainability of "assembly"
language.
Yep. The (CISC) VAX instruction set was designed partly with
assembly programmers in mind (and also to map closely to FORTRAN
and COBOL instructions), and the (macro, natch) assembler is
designed with HLL features.
The Motorola 68000 series was allegedly designed partly with C in
mind.
Patterned after the PDP-11 (), and DEC always liked orthogonal CISC
chips.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_68000#History
The MACSS team drew heavily on the influence of minicomputer
processor design, such as the PDP-11 and VAX systems, which were
similarly microcoded.
Hey, Ron
Due to Obama's intent to automate medical records, do you think that it
may be helpful to get out the old MUMPS(M) docs? Never got it's place
in the sun. But still in use at the GOV!
Cache' has been ported to Itanium/VMS, and I'm sure that HP would
love to sell hundreds of OpenVMS licenses to the government...
Thinks I may have them on DECtape! 8-)
Hah!
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