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F8 – an 8 bit architecture designed for C and memory efficiency [video]

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76 points mpweiher | 2 comments | 17 Feb 25 21:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.492s | source
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userbinator ◴[20 Feb 25 08:12 UTC] No.43112270[source]▶
The amount of research (or lack thereof) into whether the name was already taken in the same domain is disappointing. For me, F8 will always be this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_F8

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makapuf ◴[20 Feb 25 08:35 UTC] No.43112440[source]▶
Question was raised (and answered) at 16:35 on the video.
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drfuchs ◴[20 Feb 25 09:48 UTC] No.43112876[source]▶
The speaker’s claim that it’s hard to find a two-character name that hasn’t already been used for a CPU architecture seems ridiculous on its face. And his tone seems to indicate that he knows that (to me, anyway).

I programmed the real F8 back in the day, so I’m quite defensive about it. It’s most charming quirk: doing a long jump clobbers the accumulator.

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kjs3[dead post] ◴[20 Feb 25 13:09 UTC] No.43114198[source]▶
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1. sjsdaiuasgdia ◴[20 Feb 25 16:58 UTC] No.43117142[source]▶
Funnily enough, I did a quick search and immediately found an E8 processor - https://www.andestech.com/en/products-solutions/andescore-pr...

Wasn't quite as strong a match for "G8", but G[n] does show up in a lot of product descriptions to indicate what generation of the product is involved.

LG also put out a phone named the G8 Thinq in 2019.

I would generally agree with the speaker that it's hard not to collide when using a 2 character name. The "for a CPU architecture" narrows the collision space substantially, which does affect the full accuracy of the statement. But the spirit of "2 char IDs are collision prone" is true.

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2. kjs3 ◴[20 Feb 25 18:14 UTC] No.43118136[source]▶
Oh, wow...never heard of the E8 or Andes, but I guess RISC-V startups are thick on the ground these days. And I can't imagine searching for G8 and not getting carpet bombed with hits for HP servers. But the fundamental question is still "why would you even want a 2 character ID in a world where searching for it (even without the massive historical name collision with F8) will make it fruitless to search for".