On 02/10/2009 12:32 PM, Mark Allums wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
Readability and maintainability of "assembly"
language.
Yep. The (CISC) VAX instruction set was designed partly with assembly
programmers in mind (and also to map closely to FORTRAN and COBOL
instructions), and the (macro, natch) assembler is designed with HLL
features.
The Motorola 68000 series was allegedly designed partly with C in mind.
Patterned after the PDP-11 (), and DEC always liked orthogonal CISC
chips.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_68000#History
The MACSS team drew heavily on the influence of minicomputer
processor design, such as the PDP-11 and VAX systems, which were
similarly microcoded.
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