Stop Doing X86

STOP DOING X86 - UARCHS WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE MICROCODED - YEARS OF OPTIMIZATION yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for using anything other than LOAD, STORE and ADD - wanted to use more complicated instructions for a laugh? We have a tool for that: it is called "COPROCESSOR 0" - "Yes please MOV this to a location in memory. Please PUSH this to and POP that from the hardware stack" - statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged. LOOK at what the x86 companies have been demanding your respect for all this time, with all the manufacturing processes we designed for them (These are REAL products, that were REALLY marketed) ?????? ??????? ????????????? "Hello I would like you to PCLMULQDO please" They have played us for absolute fools

The meme sarcastically attacks the complexity and marketing of x86 processors. It contrasts supposedly unnecessary instructions with absurdly specific real products and ends with a mock request to use the obscure PCLMULQDO instruction, implying that x86 engineers have made the architecture needlessly complicated. It is used as a reaction to overengineering, bloated instruction sets, or ridiculous technical complexity.

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