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- From: root@candle.uucp (Bruce Momjian)
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- Subject: Re: PC Unix/Xenix vendors
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.233015.28532@candle.uucp>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 23:30:15 GMT
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- Larry D. Pyeatt (pyeatt@Texaco.com) wrote:
- : Have you actually written assembly code for both the VAX and the
- : 8088 family? The 80486 is not a less complex architecture than the VAX.
- : Less powerful? debatable. Less complex? no. The 80486 instruction set
- : is ridiculous.
-
- I would be interested in how this is true. The 3/486 has removed most
- of the register-specific instructions.
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