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Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator

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Re: Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator

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Wow. Only 10 instruction set? Looks like father of RISC cpu design

This was common back then. The PDP-8 had eight primary instructions, although one of them was multi-purpose. This helped keep the hardware simple when we didn't have ICs.

RISC isn't about having a small ISA but about a regular, orthogonal instruction set.

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