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Joker_vDyesterday at 10:28 PM1 replyview on HN

Ah, PowerPC. For a RISC processor it surely had a lot of instructions, most of them quite peculiar. But hey, it had fixed-length instruction encoding and couldn't address memory in instructions other than "explicit memory load/store", so it was RISC, right?


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bobmcnamaratoday at 12:48 AM

Also load/store backwards, but no reverse the register instructions