I thought Alpha was RISC tho...
And VAX is like, the epitome of CISC. It has a fuckton of addressing modes, and you can use every single one of them with every instruction, and everything that can be done through addressing modes is done through addressing modes.
It's beautiful and makes it impossible to pipeline.
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