John Melton wrote: > I worked on the B5500 many years ago, and then went on to work on the > B1700/B1800/B1900 series writing compilers for them!
Yeah, but that was *easy*, right? ;-) Actually a very slick, clever architecture. So many different kinds of groundbreaking ideas associated with that line of machines. In a lot of ways it's a tragedy that the x86 architecture was just cost-effective enough to wipe out a couple of generations of brilliant design innovation. And now we're stuck with it. 73 Frank AB2KT _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
