Blast from past! Too much time spent on that 11/70's front panel switches.
One thing I believe Bell missed in "what we learned." Of course, maybe it's hindsight. The regular instruction set in the '11 and the VAX was fertile ground for all sorts of innovation in compilers and optimization technology. Without those innovations it would have been harder for the gnarly-instruction processors (386 line, I'm looking at you) to gain users.
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Blast from past! Too much time spent on that 11/70's front panel switches.
One thing I believe Bell missed in "what we learned." Of course, maybe it's hindsight. The regular instruction set in the '11 and the VAX was fertile ground for all sorts of innovation in compilers and optimization technology. Without those innovations it would have been harder for the gnarly-instruction processors (386 line, I'm looking at you) to gain users.