Re: Denial of denial of service

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On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 06:21 -0600, Peter da Silva wrote:
> > Of course any RISC architecture, even an "Advanced" RISC Machine, is 
> > way easier to deal with than any CISC one.
> 
> If you'll stipulate that i860, Sparc, and of course IA64 are not RISC 
> and the PDP-11 was not CISC I'll accept that.
> 
> I haven't done much more than glance at ARM and Thumb and the rest of 
> the Acorn/Advanced RISC Machine's instruction set, but the PDP-11 was 
> beautiful for its day... and there's a whole bunch of hateful RISCs.

I've not had the joy (or maybe hate, who knows?) of programming PDP-11.
But on the SPARC side, it's a very nice instruction set to program. Even
less instructions than ARM, and more orthogonal as well. When it comes
to assembler I find the less instructions the better. The delayed branch
thing is only really a minor annoyance. The g0 register on the other
hand was a great idea.

Cheers,

Martin.

• Peter da Silva 12:21 on 29 Jan 2007
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