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by userbinator
1249 days ago
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This is the reason. LFSRs are much simpler to implement, and in those days, every transistor saved was very important. Some early microprocessors used LFSRs instead of a regular counter for their instruction pointer register for this reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8375577 |
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