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Thanks! It is derived PDP-8's own OPR instruction, which goes even further, with many carefully aligned combinations leading to clever results. A testament of i
by zenojevski 10y ago
Thanks! It is derived PDP-8's own OPR instruction, which goes even further, with many carefully aligned combinations leading to clever results. A testament of ingenuity which reveals fine craftsmanship.
In reality, I've considered switching to a regular mapping, so to have 32 no-operand instructions instead, which would fit the original five operations, all sensible combinations, plus more.
But chaining operands is definitely a more extravagant thing, so I think it can be instructive in showing how creative a solution can be in face of limitations .
- beefok 10y agoThe chaining kind of reminds me of how z80's ALU works [1]. It's kind of chained in together over time. [1] http://www.righto.com/2013/09/the-z-80-has-4-bit-alu-heres-how-it.html http://www.righto.com/2013/09/the-z-80-has-4-bit-alu-heres-h...