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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 11:45:15 JST clacke

   • Luci for Chai Tea

   In the town I went to uni, the local dialect would likely pronounce OISC and RISC the same way, /wisk/, and this is a very narrow and niche source of joy to me.

   Re: merveilles.town/@zens/11280683… @zens

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 18:23:12 JST clacke

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     (Swedes will know from this statement where I went to uni 😊 )
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 18:23:12 JST clacke

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     • R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:
     • Luci for Chai Tea

     @RL_Dane @zens Some people have been designing fantasy CPUs like that, yeah.

     en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-inst…

     But in the real world: "recent Intel x86 MMUs are actually Turing-complete OISCs"

     And TrapCC compiles this weird subset-of-x86 architecture.

     I seem to remember there's also some normal x86 instruction that is flexible enough that it can be used as an instruction set of its own.

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     R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd: (rl_dane@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 18:23:13 JST R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:

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     • Luci for Chai Tea

     @clacke @zens

     I seem to recall soneone designed a single-instruction architecture at some point.

     The single instruction was some kind of crazy conditionally-branching subtraction.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 18:23:18 JST clacke

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     • R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:
     • Luci for Chai Tea

     Here we go: "The single instruction C compiler"

     github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfus…

     The M/o/Vfuscator (short 'o', sounds like "mobfuscator") compiles programs into "mov" instructions, and only "mov" instructions. Arithmetic, comparisons, jumps, function calls, and everything else a program needs are all performed through mov operations; there is no self-modifying code, no transport-triggered calculation, and no other form of non-mov cheating.

     @zens @RL_Dane

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 18:23:21 JST clacke

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     The M/o/Vfuscator contains a complete mov-only floating point emulator. Since it is approximately 500,000 instructions, you must explicitly link to it if you need it.

     
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