Intel's "redundant prefix issue"

Posted Nov 17, 2023 0:13 UTC (Fri) by p2mate (guest, #51563)
In reply to: Intel's "redundant prefix issue" by geert
Parent article: Intel's "redundant prefix issue"

Can we then finally have a 64bit version of the m68k architecture? :)

Intel's "redundant prefix issue"

Posted Nov 17, 2023 8:03 UTC (Fri) by geert (subscriber, #98403) [Link]

Apparently the Apollo Core 68080 does have 64-bit (quad-word) support.
Unfortunately it's proprietary.
http://www.apollo-core.com/index.htm?page=coding&tl=1

Intel's "redundant prefix issue"

Posted Nov 17, 2023 8:17 UTC (Fri) by Sesse (subscriber, #53779) [Link]

I don't really know what people think the microcode is capable of doing, but it's not like the CPU decoder is purely software, just in a funny language.