"Nobody teaches assembly language"

From: Huw Davies <huw.davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
Date: Thu Jun 24 08:45:26 2004

On 24 Jun 2004, at 04:22, Antonio Carlini wrote:
>
> Presumably for stage two you have them explain
> why the POLYx instructions (which are in microcode
> in the early VAXen) were subsetted out later on.

And why other instructions which looked good to the designers
were never used by the compilers (or programmers who did some
instruction timings).

Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au
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