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The DEC Alpha chip was the same. It also had a hardwired zero register (although IIRC the zero register was r31 instead of r0) and about half the addressing mo
by pwg 11mo ago
The DEC Alpha chip was the same. It also had a hardwired zero register (although IIRC the zero register was r31 instead of r0) and about half the addressing modes and a whole bunch of "assembly instructions" were created by interesting uses of that zero register.