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minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·21 hours agoI sincerely hope that if they come up with a 128bit instruction set they call it “x80” to maintain backwards compatibility with previous set names and be deliberately confusing to everyone.
minus-squareInverseParallax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agox87. Because that would be unambiguous what it means.
I sincerely hope that if they come up with a 128bit instruction set they call it “x80” to maintain backwards compatibility with previous set names and be deliberately confusing to everyone.
x87.
Because that would be unambiguous what it means.