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For questions regarding the instruction sets of microprocessors.

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What was the 6-bit length instruction(s) in the Intel iAPX 432?

The iAPX 432 was arguably the most complex processor architecture ever and a commercial failure for Intel. It was a stack machine with no visible general-purpose registers. It had hardware support fo …
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Origin of "arithmetic" and "logical" for signed and unsigned shifts

The assembly language for many processors use the phrase "arithmetic shift" to represent the bitwise shift of a signed value, and "logical shift" for an unsigned value. The two types of shift are the …
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