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Re:Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has ... by ethbro on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @07:04PM (#13127389)
I'm imagining the documentation for an individual transistor that extends all the way up the stack... and thinking about Escher for some reason.
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Re:Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has ... by mycall on Thursday December 08, 2016 @12:04AM (#13128514)
This makes me wonder how many undocumented transistors are on the chips -- there because nobody knows why.
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Re:Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has ... by andromeduck on Thursday December 08, 2016 @03:42AM (#13129166)
Apparently Nvidia had to drop VBIOS a bit early because it started having issues but they no longer had enough people who knew how it worked to continue supporting the feature.
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