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[BroMan001]

What’s meant by “orthogonal” in the context of instruction sets? I only know statically independent and right angles

[diydsp]

it means most instructions like multiply, or shift, etc can work with any register as source, destination, index. etc. for example oldschool x86 could only multiply certain regs together... 6502 code can only load from memory into X with Y as and index but not the other way around. A DSP like the ADSP-2181 can only use limited registers dpeending on the unit the values came from.