One Instruction Set Computer

Re:One Instruction Set Computer by rambojazz on Sunday December 08, 2019 @01:23AM (#21734612)

Every example under "Instruction types" looks like a combination of 2 (or more) instructions. "Do this AND do that".

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Re:One Instruction Set Computer by int_19h on Sunday December 08, 2019 @05:08AM (#21735180)

Whether something does one or several things largely depends on your perspective. You might think of ADD as a single instruction, but it fiddles with a lot of bits...

This is "one instruction" in a sense of having only a single opcode.

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Re:One Instruction Set Computer by saagarjha on Sunday December 08, 2019 @02:58AM (#21734831)

Of course, taken to the logical extreme we can have the "RISC OISC", which is just an instruction that interprets the operand as a fixed-width instruction for a RISC architecture ;)

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