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Comment by userbinator

2 days ago

The amount of research (or lack thereof) into whether the name was already taken in the same domain is disappointing. For me, F8 will always be this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_F8

Question was raised (and answered) at 16:35 on the video.

  • The speaker’s claim that it’s hard to find a two-character name that hasn’t already been used for a CPU architecture seems ridiculous on its face. And his tone seems to indicate that he knows that (to me, anyway).

    I programmed the real F8 back in the day, so I’m quite defensive about it. It’s most charming quirk: doing a long jump clobbers the accumulator.