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>But after learning about how small the RISC-V instruction set is (less than 50 apparently, but I can't find a citation for that anywhere), I'm far more motivated to get into it.

from the times when x86 wasn't that big: http://pastraiser.com/cpu/i8080/i8080_opcodes.html

30 years ago we were typing the hex codes of those commands straight into the Forth words bodies using the mental copy of that table (as you see it has very logical easy to remember organization)







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