From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
      
   Thomas Koenig  writes:   
   >I recently heard that CS graduates from ETH Zürich had heard about   
   >pipelines, but thought it was fetch-decode-execute.   
      
   Why would a CS graduate need to know about pipelines?   
      
   >They also did not know about DEC or the VAX.  Sic transit gloria   
   >mundi...   
      
   Yes, a few years ago I asked some students, among them an older one   
   who was interested in some older technologies, whether they had heard   
   of the VAX.  None had.  It seems that VAX was big in the 80s, but it   
   then vanished from the radar of the computer-interested public.  So   
   anybody who became interested in computers only afterwards is unlikely   
   to have heard of the VAX, unless they are into retrocomputing or read   
   old debates about the advantages of RISC.   
      
   - anton   
   --   
   'Anyone trying for "industrial quality" ISA should avoid undefined behavior.'   
     Mitch Alsup,    
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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