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"beautiful isa"? you've seen x86, right?!


Nothing can replace the wonder of the DEC-10 instruction set. This gem from a commentary to the instruction set manual:

"...By the way, for the sake of consistency, AOBJN should have been called AOBJL and AOBJP should have been called AOBJGE. However, they weren't. ..."




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