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Re:Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has ... by kazinator on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @09:32PM (#13127977)
1000 pages comes close to ANSI Common Lisp [1994], which is still criticized by some bitter old Lisp trolls for its size.

It's just some CPU instructions!

Maybe they aren't doing a good job of describing them succinctly?

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Re:Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has ... by andars on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @09:52PM (#13128055)
They probably aren't describing them very succinctly, because there isn't really a benefit to dropping information in the complete instruction set reference. If you don't want all of the information, look at the instruction set summary instead (~40 pages in volume 1).

These things aren't written to be brief, they are written to be complete.

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