From: sfuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid   
      
   On 8/10/2025 11:07 AM, John Savard wrote:   
   > On Tue, 05 Aug 2025 18:23:36 -0500, BGB wrote:   
   >   
   >> That said, a lot of John's other ideas come off to me like straight up   
   >> absurdity. So, I wouldn't hold up much hope personally for it to turn   
   >> into much usable.   
   >   
   > While I think that not being able to be put to use isn't really one of the   
   > faults of the Concertina II ISA,   
      
   I am not sure what you are saying here.  Is it the while you agree that   
   at least some features cannot be put to use, but that isn't the fault of   
   the ISA, or that the fault of not being able to be put to use doesn't   
   exist in the ISA?   
      
      
   > the block structure, especially at its   
   > current level of complexity, is going to come across as quite weird to   
   > many, and I don't yet see any hope of achieving a drastic simplification   
   > in that area.   
   >   
   > Each of the sixteen block types serves one or another functionality which   
   > I see as necessary to give this ISA the breadth of application that I have   
   > as my goal.   
      
   While I agree that they meet your goals (at least as I understand them),   
   I think that you have two problems.   
      
   Your goals, even if you meet them aren't particularly useful, e.g. being   
   "nearly" plug compatible with S/360   
      
   There are *far* simpler ways to accomplish what most people really want   
   to do.   
      
      
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