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Ancient IETF 'teapot' gag preserved for posterity as a standard

JulieM Silver badge

Re: Ah, developer humour.

The very early ARM chips actually included a "never" condition code, which was available on every instruction. Meaning 1/16 of its entire instruction set was effectively NOP!

Much of the space formerly occupied by these "useless" (but preserving the symmetry) instructions has since been allotted to new instructions, though.

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