• 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