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Re:$30M Raised to Redo the CPU by RetroTechie on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @10:07AM (#50454339)
> leaving out byte and halfword memory access instructions

Huh? LB(U) / LH(U)

Re:$30M Raised to Redo the CPU by kragen on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @10:15AM (#50454421)
The Alpha left out byte and halfword memory access instructions, and ARM left out halfword access instructions; both had to correct the omission later. I said RISC-V was determined not to repeat "what they saw as the blunders of past designs", so it had those from the beginning.