By: none (none.delete@this.none.com), August 12, 2022 3:53 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Megol (golem960.delete@this.gmail.com) on August 12, 2022 3:04 am wrote:
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> > Ugly, but not so ugly as x86.
> Debatable. X86 is like two separate architectures with some similarities,
> the 8086-80286 was pretty clean, the 80386 too.
I guess you are talking about encoding which was cleaner than 68k IIRC. Because for the rest,
what was not ugly in 8086? Non orthogonal use of registers all around the place, non
orthogonal settings of flags, segments, etc.
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> > Ugly, but not so ugly as x86.
> Debatable. X86 is like two separate architectures with some similarities,
> the 8086-80286 was pretty clean, the 80386 too.
I guess you are talking about encoding which was cleaner than 68k IIRC. Because for the rest,
what was not ugly in 8086? Non orthogonal use of registers all around the place, non
orthogonal settings of flags, segments, etc.
