Talk:Alternate Instruction Set

Why does "Rosenbridge" link to the "Wormhole" wiki?

See subject... 96.245.205.88 (talk) 12:41, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You would need to ask Christopher Domas why the name "Rosenbridge" was chosen—but as to why the Wormhole article is linked: an Einstein‒Rosen Bridge, is a wormhole; and the Alternate Instruction Set allows entry into a different/lower dimension of the processor. —Sladen (talk) 10:00, 17 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Obscure document sources

You created the Alternate Instruction Set article in Special:Diff/854333527 and cited an obscure document containing a bunch of information on the ISA, but I can't find any other websites from that time (including Domas's research) which knew about the official documentation. I was wondering how you knew about the documentation! (Did you work for VIA or something?) —Ovinus 03:11, 17 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ovinus: Everything that was found as a source of information should also be listed in Alternate Instruction Set#References, which is quite possibly all the public information. Lots of Google searches and grunt work, and hunting out factoids, nothing private here. Theoretically patents should always have enough details, although modern patents tend to be very vague, requiring reading between the lines. Intel's (and other's) internal microcode is something that has fascinated me for a long-time, there was always quite a bit of documentation in public sources, but sometimes it needs somebody like Peter Bosch, Christopher Domas, Hector Martin, George Hotz, Andrew Huang or the various Positive crew to raise the game up.

Same for the Giga Press article, just lots of a searching and hunting through planning applications, patents, old interviews (in multiple languages), and assembling the citations necessary to write the article. Or Hogwarts Express (Universal Orlando Resort), or the AMPRNet, or Arnold van den Bergh where people's first reaction is perhaps not all that is going on … in each of these cases, the fairly complete biblography (References + Further reading) assembled is far more valuable, because it enables other people to (hopefully) do their own readings and research, and not simply read the summary that is on Wikipedia (evening if just reading is what 99% of the readers will do!). Keeping hunting for those citations, and when you find something, add it! —Sladen (talk) 11:25, 17 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]