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Hmm, wasn't the 386 addressing modes pretty much orthogonal? (At least, compared to what 8086 and 80286 had.)
by yongjik 9y ago
Hmm, wasn't the 386 addressing modes pretty much orthogonal? (At least, compared to what 8086 and 80286 had.)
- jacquesm 9y agoYes, but the instruction set wasn't. Orthogonality in an instruction set basically means that you know what basic instructions a processor supports, which addressing modes it supports and that allows you to create all possible combinations and they will just work as expected without gaps or strange insertions and if you look at the opcodes you'll be able to make sense of them.