ksp [il/lui]@jlai.lu to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-25 months agoZed on Linux is out!zed.devexternal-linkmessage-square225fedilinkarrow-up1420arrow-down122file-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 Eagle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·5 months agoimagine the nightmare of writing a 65 bit instruction set
minus-squarelaughterlaughter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·5 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 Eagle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·5 months agoonly if double precision can be called high fyves
minus-squarelaughterlaughter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoThis is a mandatory rule now.
minus-squareyogurtwrong@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-25 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