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Re:The x86 architecture is the weirdo, part 2 by grishka on Friday April 22, 2022 @07:20AM (#31120305)
> exceeding the weirdness budget with VLIW nonsense

I feel like the Russian "Elbrus" architecture did the same exact thing.

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Re:The x86 architecture is the weirdo, part 2 by monocasa on Friday April 22, 2022 @08:49AM (#31120975)
They hide it well though, like transmeta.
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Re:The x86 architecture is the weirdo, part 2 by mepian on Friday April 22, 2022 @12:30PM (#31123866)
If you mean the x86 emulation, it's not supposed to be the default mode of operation.
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Re:The x86 architecture is the weirdo, part 2 by monocasa on Friday April 22, 2022 @12:49PM (#31124198)
Its supposed to be a valid way to use the chip. The Russian military has a lot of windows systems and wants to run that on domestically developed chips that don't have a management engine.
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