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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (11 children)

What, you don't have a special command to Compare Unsigned values in register C vs result register K? or Floating-point Addition with Parenthesis, so store the value for use on the next cycle?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I still don't know why this architecture went for a Double XOR as the NOP, I guess they were just flexing that the reference chip design could do both in a single cycle

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

When returning from kernel code, one should issue Drop Execution Ring Privileges, of course.

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