• buh [she/her]
      hexagon
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      8 months ago

      security vulnerabilities, not as energy efficient as other ISAs like ARM, bloated to support instructions that nobody uses anymore or maybe ever at all

      • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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        edit-2
        8 months ago

        15 years ago you used to be able to order the architecture manuals from Intel for free. It was a five volume set. The instruction set alone filled two >1" thick volumes, covering each instruction in roughly two pages.

        CISC is bad. Billions and billions of transistors, and for what?

        • bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml
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          8 months ago

          At least you can burn the manuals in the winter when the proxy war has made gas prohibitively expensive