ulterno , 6 days ago I see it as the number of possible instructions. As in, 8 bit 8085 had 2^8^ possible instructions, 32 bit ones had 2^32^ and already had enough possible combinations that we couldn't come up with enough functions to fill the provided space. CC BY-NC-SA
I see it as the number of possible instructions.
As in, 8 bit 8085 had 2^8^ possible instructions, 32 bit ones had 2^32^ and already had enough possible combinations that we couldn't come up with enough functions to fill the provided space.
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