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Comment by Joker_vD

4 hours ago

Ah, PowerPC. For a RISC processor it surely had a lot of instructions, most of them quite peculiar. But hey, it had fixed-length instruction encoding and couldn't address memory in instructions other than "explicit memory load/store", so it was RISC, right?

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bobmcnamara  2 hours ago

Also load/store backwards, but no reverse the register instructions

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