• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    The PowerPC folks are a special breed of dork. One time… they renamed a bunch of instructions. There were some very plausible motives given for changing how mnemonics worked. Mentioning flag names was boilerplate, abbreviating “ex-” words as X was too American, that sort of thing. So officially, there’s no particular reason the Enforce In-order Execution of Input / Output command is EIEIO.