Am I correct in believing that video game consoles such as the NES used graphics and instructions at the bit level? Why don't modern operating systems use instructions that are only a few bits rather than bytes? You'd be doing the same operations at 1/8 the scale.
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FrozenVoid2011-10-08 8:25
>Why don't modern operating systems use instructions that are only a few bits rather than bytes? You'd be doing the same operations at 1/8 the scale.
They do actually, its called microops(uops), and opcodes are decoded to be reassmbled as uops inside the CPU pipeline. http://abinstein.blogspot.com/2007/05/decoding-x86-from-p6-to-core-2.html