okay new plan gonna make a line of CPUs where each CPU family has a totally random amount of bits and never tell anybody and it's like a mystery thing
sometimes it'll go up, sometimes down. *nods* there will be no rhyme or reason. I'll call it x69 architecture.
@Felthry okay real talk now because before I was joking about the bit numbers thing about computers rather than being serious but
processors have more than one "bit number"??? :O I need to know more
@Nine like the pic24 family has some instructions that operate on 8-bit words and separate instructions that operate on 16-bit words
@Nine x86-64 processors also still have all the 32-bit instructions from the 32-bit x86 family too
@Felthry ..yoooooo that's...
heck that's wild. is it like with the TG16 console where it was '16 bit' in that it had a 16 bit main processor but 8 bit for sound?
@Nine no, this is just different operations the same processor can do
@Nine the number of bits of a processor's data bus stopped being a useful metric a while ago
@Nine you should take the time to learn the basics of assembly programming sometime, it's really fascinating and it shows you exactly, in detail, what the processor can and can't do
@Nine (also it's nowhere near as hard to understand as people make it out to be (unless you're looking at x86 assembly. don't do that); it gets complicated to make it do what you want, but it's not at all complciated to understand. It's very basic instructions like "grab this number and put it here" or "add this number to this number")
@Nine put the word "nice" in every processor codename
Bring the first 420 bit CPU to the market and don't advertise it
@kyra ALSO HIRED
we're gonna rock the tech world, they'll never be able to stop us.
I can picture the reviews now.
"Okay so I finally got my hands on this new processor that everyone's talking about and everyone's saying it's really nice but I've tried it out for five minutes and it's slow as molasses, I mean look at this garbage. It's FINALLY loading the bios screen and-"
Bios Screen: x69-420mhz cpu
"...nice."
@Nine I said 420 bit which is different
Bit width is the size of the "word" a cpu can receive every cycle
@Nine 420 bit cpus would be able to suck in hideous amounts of data and would be difficult to engineer
@Nine making it work would be. More difficult than is worthwhile
@kyra i have no idea what i'm doing B)
but yeah that's hilarious tho. I kinda love it? and... part of me wants to see it?
like if I had the ability to just, alter reality on whim, I'd do goofy stuff like make an x420 processor just to... see what happened. and how it ran. just like... magic up some programs to work on it or something
@Nine i mean it's already a poorly defined metric to begin with
some processors have more than one "bit number"