28 Jan
2008
28 Jan
'08
3:11 p.m.
> Can we just shoot the designers of the 8086 and
just leave it that. !?
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Jim Leonard wrote:
But seriously -- why? I didn't find it all that
horrible -- in fact, I
missed the string handling (REP MOVSW/STOSW/SCASW/etc.) on all the other
platforms I mentioned. If they truly deserve to be shot, I want to know
why :-)
Some people get rather upset at the lack of symmetry, and lack of certain
instructions that might be handy, such as a load immediate into segment
registers.