Why are modern cpus still using cisc at the top layer?
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Anonymous2012-01-16 14:04
>>19 Have you looked at the x86 opcodes in octal? The authors of 8080 and 8086 references (including Intel's own references) are apparently not aware of the octal nature of their own machines, and the result is an almost grotesque complication and bungling up in the presentation of something that is actually fairly simple. Thus, people claim that it's almost impossible to know 8086 binary by heart, whereas in fact I know most of it by memory. I'll straighten out the mess for you here. http://www.lpjjl.net/pgm/fichiers/docasm/OPCODE.txt
Why does Intel present the opcodes in hex which makes it look ugly and haphazard instead of in octal as it was designed to be?