[geeks] Re: um, hi. I'm new.

[dave at cca.org]

mcguire at neurotica.com writes:

>  You didn't like the VAX, or you didn't like VMS?  The VAX is widely
>hailed as being one of the most elegant processor architectures ever
>designed...it's kinda hard to dislike. ;)

Elegant? Like that parody of a native float format? What is it - 
mid-endian?

It's highly assembly-programmer-friendly. The overall machine
arch is really nice. The instruction set is often used as a
negative example of various things though.

>  VMS is something that people either love or hate when they're exposed
>to it...rarely in between.  (personally I think it's great)

Or respectfully hate.

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