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No byte stores, required alignment, also annoying to write shellcode for!



Doesn’t MIPS have sb? Was that not part of MIPS I? (Or are you talking about DEC Alpha?)


Alpha, sorry!


It’s hard to tell some of the RISCs apart ;)


Easy to say now. Back then, probing probing, always probing...


It was annoying to write shellcode for back then.




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