Eric, As others have pointed out your time line is wrong... BArry p.s. I'm ex-DEC and old enough to have seen the introduction of the 6502 (got mine at university for $25 inc postage to the U.K.), Z80 and VAX (worked on product for V1.0 of VMS). Also for my sins argued with Gordon Bell and Dave Cutler about CPU architecture. > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric S. Raymond [mailto:esr@thyrsus.com] > Sent: 04 June 2001 21:11 > To: Barry Scott > Cc: python-dev (E-mail) > Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] %b format? - 8088 like a PDP-11 I think not... > > > Barry Scott <barry@scottb.demon.co.uk>: > > Eric wrote: > > > While I'm at it, I should note that the design of the 11 was ancestral > > > to both the 8088 and 68000 microprocessors, and thus to essentially > > > every new general-purpose computer designed in the last fifteen years. > > > > The key to PDP-11 and VAX was lots of registers all a like and rich > > addressing modes for the instructions. > > > > The 8088 is very far from this design, its owes its design more to > > 4004 then the PDP-11. > > Yes, but the 4004 was designed as a sort of lobotomized imitation of the 65xx, > which was descended from the 11. Admiitedly, in the chain of transmission here > were two stages of redesign so bad that the connection got really tenuous. > -- > <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> > > ...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people > against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers > are extreme aberrants with lifelong histories of crime, substance > abuse, psychopathology, mental retardation and/or irrational violence > against those around them, as well as other hazardous behavior, e.g., > automobile and gun accidents." > -- Don B. Kates, writing on statistical patterns in gun crime > >
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