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You could make the same arguments against documenting the machine code of a CPU.
by abecedarius 12y ago
You could make the same arguments against documenting the machine code of a CPU.
- dfox 12y agoFor CPU, there is no another processor that can run all the abstraction software so it has to be done in hardware or in software in a way that is transparent to user (microcode, Transmeta-style JIT...).
- abecedarius 12y agoThat's an implementation detail: the manufacturer supplies the system software, and by this argument you're not supposed to care where it runs.