What Influenced x86 ISA Evolution in Last 40+ Years
Written by Grigory Rechistov in Uncategorized on 07.08.2015. Tags: 4004, 8008, 8086, evolution, history, ia-32, x86,
So
here’s the picture. It’s quite a high-level view, mostly focused on
early days. I am trying to formulate an extended answer on this
question: “Why does Intel IA-32 instruction encoding is so damn
complex?”The short answer is: “It’s evolution, not design”. A long
answer …