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Re:Intel's $475M error: the silicon behind the Pentium divis... by Sesse__ on Sunday December 29, 2024 @03:47PM (#42542927)
It's only a stack machine in front, really. Behind-the-scenes, it's probably just eight registers (the stack is a fixed size, it doesn't spill to memory or anything).
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Re:Intel's $475M error: the silicon behind the Pentium divis... by lallysingh on Sunday December 29, 2024 @10:48PM (#42546266)
Definitely was 8 regs: https://intranetssn.github.io/www.ssn.net/twiki/pub/CseIntra... also where you'd see 'long double'
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