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From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
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Subject: Re: is Vax addressing sane today
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2024 14:03:59 GMT
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Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> writes:
>On Sun, 06 Oct 2024 08:40:55 GMT
>anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) wrote:
>
>> 
>> AMD are easily provable culprits in this scam: They call their
>> micro-ops "ROPs", for RISC ops.
>> 
>
>Wasn't the term invented by Nexgen for Nx586 and later adapted by AMD
>after they scrapped their home brewed core in favor of Nexgen's core
>that later became know as AMD K6?

Easily possible.  AMD may not have been the original culprit, but they
continued this terminology, and therefore are just as guilty.

- anton
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