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From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@Update.UU.SE>
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On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Ed G. wrote:

> [Q:  What do you think of the PDP-11 architecture?]
> 
> > It's simply beautiful.  The PDP-11 architecture is the pinnacle of
> > 16-bit computing, as the 6502 (the world's first RISC chip) is the
> 
> > For the definition of "butt ugly", see the Intel i386 and its ilk.
> 
> How much of the i386 design derives either directly or indirectly 
> from the PDP-11? 

Very little. The status bits is the only stuff I can think of.
All the rest are different, from what I can see.

	Johnny

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