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Now I want to define an architecture just like the 8008, only with each register 64-bits and only 64-bits.

• saagarjha 7y ago
  Defining an architecture is easy! All you have to do is write up a document with instructions and their encodings, and boom! You’ve created a new architecture. Here’s one I made earlier this year for a class I was teaching, for example: https://github.com/regular-vm/specification https://github.com/regular-vm/specification
  • perl4ever 7y ago
    Well, yes, but that would be in order to emulate it or maybe implement it on an fpga or something.
    • saagarjha 7y ago
      Yes, that's what we did. Did you have something else in mind?
• tenebrisalietum 7y ago
  That's such a waste if you really only need something that will fit in 8 bits. Especially limited register space. Also what if I want to deal with something like screen pixels that packs nicely in 8 bit boundaries, but maybe I don't want the first 8 bits?