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[โ€“] bequirtle@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It's irrelevant to the humor, it's just an arbitrary x86 instruction. The point is that keyboard inputs (with a PS/2 keyboard) interrupt whatever the computer is doing

Though to answer your question, it moves the value from the rbx register to the rbx register

[โ€“] SatansDaughter@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago

Oh ok, I didn't know keyboards used to do that