Alpha had all sorts of exotic load intermediate and shift instructions to help with this. 64bit registers, 32bit instructions, I forget the exact number but yo

Alpha had all sorts of exotic load intermediate and shift instructions to help with this. 64bit registers, 32bit instructions, I forget the exact number but you only had 20ish bits of immediate value. It seemed like slightly more of a chore then, with x8664 you can use memory with a lot of instructions..