Smithsonian gets it wrong
Gordon JC Pearce
gordonjcp at gjcp.net
Sat Nov 12 16:00:57 CST 2005
a.carlini at ntlworld.com wrote:
> Vassilis Prevelakis wrote:
>
>
>>Hello?? The label says its a *MICRO*VAX, and if its a uVAX, then its
>>not a mini. Also, calling the baby-sized uVAX a mini gives visitors
>>who may have never seen a mini-computer the wrong idea as to what a
>>mini-computer looks like. Sure I'll accept that its *compatible* with
>>a VAX (I'll even ignore the minor business of emulating a small part
>>of the instruction set :-), but is not a VAX.
>
>
> I'd not call the MicroVAX a mini, but it *is* a VAX. The
> architecture was subsetted to allow some latitude in
> implementation, but user mode code did not need to
> worry about that: the instructions still worked.
>
> A VAX, is a VAX, is a VAX.
Of course, of course,
And no-one can talk to a VAX of course,
That is, of course, unless the VAX is the famou
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