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Re:How to improve the RISC-V specification by gumby on Sunday April 28, 2024 @02:49PM (#40190819)
> No document that I could find has ever tried to specify an instruction set independent of an actual implementation.

The most famous example is MIX.

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Re:How to improve the RISC-V specification by weebull on Sunday April 28, 2024 @06:04PM (#40192402)
...because those are normally proprietary documents.

ARM, for example, put a tonne of effort into decoupling their ISA specification from their implementations, and guard this document.

You're seeing how the sausage is made.

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