Orthogonality and contrivedness

[Peter C. Wallace]

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> To me it's perfectly obvious that the MSP430 is PDP-11 like, and
> in some ways even more orthogonal than the -11. The CP1600 was
> substantially less orthogonal, more Nova-like with some
> of the registers obviously intended for index use.

Actually its much more TMS9900 like than PDP11 like (addressing modes, 
machine code layout, number of registers)
not surprisingly since its from TI


>
> Tim.
>

Peter Wallace
Mesa Electronics

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