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JEBailey on April 4, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Notch's Specification for the In-Game DCPU-16

I follow most of what's occurring within this document, but there's a bit that's throwing me and I hope someone can shed some light. When you're processing the step

SET A,B

Does A have to represent a register, or is it a memory ___location or is it both and the registry is just a ___location in ram?

viraptor on April 4, 2012 [–]

a and b are just decoded value bits. That means they can be either one of those things. 0x00-0x07: registers themselves, 0x08-0x0f: addressing via register, etc.

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