Olin Lathrop wrote:
>> What would be the tradeoff?
>
> The PDP-11 is Von Neuman and the height of CISC, which may not make sense 
> in
> with today's technologies for many objectives.

I guess one could make the old RISC argument that it's better to have a 
handful of highly optimized commands, and let compilers replace the 
microcode.

Vitaliy 

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