Would anyone mind posting a short assembly snippet of a VAX vector instruction used in context?
The only complex instruction I've ever used is the Z-80's "LDIR". > On Jul 9, 2015, at 12:16 PM, Richard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > In article <[email protected]>, > Bob Supnik <[email protected]> writes: > >> Vectors were all the rage at the time (late 80s) because of the success >> of the so-called "minisupers" like Convex and Alliant. It was just a >> flash in the pan, of course; with the end of the Cold War in the early >> 90s, funding for HPTC dried up for a decade, and all the minisuper and >> VLIW companies died out. > > It may have been considered a "flash in the pan" as far as DEC was > concerned, but it certainly had a lasting presence on computing. The > simd extensions added to x86 (MMX, SSE, etc.) and other CPU > architectures are testimony to the importance of vector oriented > processing. > -- > "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book <http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline> > The Computer Graphics Museum <http://ComputerGraphicsMuseum.org> > The Terminals Wiki <http://terminals.classiccmp.org> > Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) <http://LegalizeAdulthood.wordpress.com> > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
