ksp [il/lui] to [email protected]English • edit-210 months agoZed on Linux is out!zed.devexternal-linkmessage-square220fedilinkarrow-up1414arrow-down121file-text
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Zed is a modern open-source code editor, built from the ground up in Rust with a GPU-accelerated renderer.
minus-squareEager EaglelinkfedilinkEnglish23•10 months agoimagine the nightmare of writing a 65 bit instruction set
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•10 months agoI don’t think it has to be a nightmare per se if you start from scratch. Instead of 8-bit bytes, you have 5-bit “bytes” (fyves?) Hoozah! Done.
minus-squareEager EaglelinkfedilinkEnglish10•10 months agoonly if double precision can be called high fyves
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•edit-210 months agoNow imagine designing a 65 bit computer. The bus, registers, alu… You’ll probably waste a lotta chips since most of them are designed for working with powers of 2
imagine the nightmare of writing a 65 bit instruction set
I don’t think it has to be a nightmare per se if you start from scratch.
Instead of 8-bit bytes, you have 5-bit “bytes” (fyves?) Hoozah! Done.
only if double precision can be called high fyves
This is a mandatory rule now.
Now imagine designing a 65 bit computer. The bus, registers, alu…
You’ll probably waste a lotta chips since most of them are designed for working with powers of 2