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In article <37515@bbn.COM> slackey@BBN.COM (Stan Lackey) writes:
>The MICROvax architecture does NOT include
>string instructions, other than MOVC3 (and MOVC5?).  Some DEC-supplied
>software includes emulation to ease the transition.  Generating the
>in-line emulation using a reduced instruction set is NO PROBLEM, right?

There *IS NO* MicroVAX architecture.  There is a MicroVAX *implementation*
of the VAX architecture, which implements some instructions in software.
This is very different.

>1.  The uVAX is NOT said to implement the VAX architecture.

I've never seen this claimed.

>2.  MIPS, AMD, Intel, Motorola, Sun, etc. don't do your work for you either.
>    I don't understand why it is OK for the RISC suppliers to supply
>    reduced instruction sets, but if DEC does it it's evil.

Ours is not "reduced" as in an incompatible subset of our other products.
Our *architecture* is designed around instruction leanness.  If we were to
release a system on which some of our instructions would not run in either
hardware or provided software, that would not be reduced, that would be
STUPID.
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