Hardware Design of x86

computers throw interrupt when you divide by 0 instead of returning NaN/Inf/MaxInt
Instructions left from early 80's
shift and rotates with more than 1 cycle latency
privilege rings
task segments

>>10
petal stool
taken for granite
diamond dozen
It's a pretty clever post really

prema donna is a tricky one though, who the hell drops a bit of latin in while speaking english