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Larry Blanchard Larry Blanchard is offline
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Default Rest in Peace, Mr. Ritchie

On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:24:53 -0400, Mike Marlow wrote:

I always thought the Nat'l Semi 16032 and its relatives had the best
instruction set of the micro chips, but my real favorite was a
mainframe from the '60s, the GE4xx series. Not a lot about it on the
web but a little at:


Mixed thoughts there Larry 0 GE4x was not a microprocessor based
machine.


Well, I did say it was a "mainframe", but I see what you mean. I guess I
should have said the 4xx had my favorite instruction set of all
computers, main, mini, or micro.

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