[Simh] VAX vectors

Jon Elson jonelson126 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 10 23:44:32 EDT 2015


From: Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com>
  To: SIMH <simh at trailing-edge.com> Subject: Re: [Simh] VAX vectors
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 4:53 
PM, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
>> >VAX was pretty much the last CISC-y architecture that sold in any
>> >sizable units
>> >
> ​68K family was after the VAX (  VAX in mid-70s vs. 68K is late 70s).
The fiirst VAX sold in late 1977, and was well in swing with both 
"mainframe" and desktop class machines until the early 1990's, when the 
DEC Alpha came out.

Jon


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