VAXen RULE! (WAS Microkernels)

[Allison]

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>Subject: Re: VAXen RULE! (WAS Microkernels)
>   From: Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com>
>   Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:40:34 -0400
>     To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>Scott Quinn wrote:
>> On the positive side, what is the most perfect computer architecture + implementation people have come across here?
>> Tell us why, especially if it's something like PERQ or Acorn RISC/pc that is not common outside of a limited geographic area.
>
>I really dig z/Arch.  Extreme CISCy goodness.  MMMmmmMMMmmmMMM.
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>Extreme pleasure in writing assembler.
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>Peace...  Sridhar

Vax is good but PDP-11 is it's foundation and of the 16bitters it's a very 
nice cpu.

Allison