Re: Early-2014 Macbook Air and Linux Mint Cinnamon
Charlie Gibbs <[email protected]>
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On 2026-06-24, The Natural Philosopher <[email protected]> wrote: > On 24/06/2026 16:29, John Ames wrote: > >> And then there's the 8086, in which all registers are*sorta* general- >> purpose, except they also all have special functions the others don't, >> except when you can override them, but sometimes you can't... :/ > > Ah the joys of doing CISC with microcode 'we've got a few more opcode > slots we can use, what weird instructions can we put in them? Or what happens when I feed it this undocumented opcode? People built a large table for the Z-80, which would do all sorts of strange things with those opcodes. -- /~\ Charlie Gibbs | No artificial \ / <[email protected]> | intelligence was X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | used in the creation / \ if you read it the right way. | of this post.