📝Modern processors are fast PDP-11 emulators

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Modern processors ([2020-11-15 Sun]) weren’t built as just fast processors, but as fast emulators of PDP-11. They are trying to expose the same programming model and keep compatibility.

This allowed C programmers to keep believing that their language is close to the underlying hardware. (C is no longer a low-level language)

The emulation comes to two points:

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