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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Someone told me every processor used 0xEA

Not sure if this is a riff on the joke or not.

Back in the day I dabbled in 6510 code, and up until today hadn't even bothered to look at a chart of opcodes for any of its contemporaries. Today I learned that Z80 uses $00 for NOP.

Loth as I am to admit it, that actually makes sense. Maybe more sense than 65xx which acts more like a divide-by-zero has happened.

The rest of the opcode table was full of alien looking mnemonics though, and no undocumented single byte opcodes? Freaky, man.

But the point is that not even Z80 used $EA. If the someone was real they probably meant every 65xx processor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What? This is system programming, not web development.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I was making a joke about their spelling error.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And I was making a joke about the D&D spider goddess.

But the word is "loath," which has an accepted alternate spelling of "loth". "Lolth" is the Dungeons and Dragons spider goddess, commonly worshiped by Drow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Oh Christ, I can't believe I missed that.

Operating on low sleep and responding before coffee.

I shall flog myself now