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Comment by userbinator

10 months 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.