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Some Mnemonics (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by pastermil@sh.itjust.works to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 55 points 2 months ago (11 children)

What, you don't have a special command to Compare Unsigned values in register C vs result register K? or Floating-point Addition with Parenthesis, so store the value for use on the next cycle?

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I still don't know why this architecture went for a Double XOR as the NOP, I guess they were just flexing that the reference chip design could do both in a single cycle

[–] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 months ago

When returning from kernel code, one should issue Drop Execution Ring Privileges, of course.

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