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   Re: VMS previous DEC/CPQ/HP[E] decisions   
   20 Sep 25 21:10:51   
   
   From: arne@vajhoej.dk   
      
   On 9/20/2025 8:51 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   > On 9/20/2025 4:13 PM, John Dallman wrote:   
   >> The VAX instruction set is quite nice in some ways and quite horrible in   
   >> others. Some of those made it hard to make run very fast.   
   >>   
   >> The extremely variable-length instructions are a prime example.   
   >   
   > CASEx is probably the worst.   
   >   
   > Example of >100 bytes long:   
      
   Correction:   
      
    >50 bytes long   
      
   Arne   
      
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