• PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    15 years ago you used to be able to order the architecture manuals from Intel for free. It was a five volume set. The instruction set alone filled two >1" thick volumes, covering each instruction in roughly two pages.

    CISC is bad. Billions and billions of transistors, and for what?

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      8 months ago

      At least you can burn the manuals in the winter when the proxy war has made gas prohibitively expensive