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by throw0101d 830 days ago
Related to strange things running in spreadsheets, if you want to see how a 16-bit CPU works, Inkbox has created one in a spreadsheet:

* https://github.com/InkboxSoftware/excelCPU

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rg7xvTJ8SU

A twenty-four instruction assembly language is also provided.

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It's since changed, but for a while the band [Portugal. The Man]'s website was just a Google Sheet!

https://web.archive.org/web/20230831003431/https://www.portu...

Reminds me of way back when I wrote a simple 8086 assembler in Lotus 123. It even worked for simple uses.
Lotus 123 would have been more popular with programmers if it were named Lotus 012.