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x86 is rough, but ARM is still a fairly clean ISA.


What about ia32e x86?

Other than booting it, and EFI is addressing that, it's a fairly clean and nice architecture. Some of the registers have legacy names. Are there any really odd legacy behaviors?


Pretty much everything still exists in AMD64. You can still set up a 16-bit process while running under long mode.




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