The elegance of the DG Nova instruction set really becomes apparent when you write emulation code for it. The entire core CPU emulation (no devices) is 250 lines of C, including comments and not even written to be small.
Nova 3 and 4 will probably add another 50-100 lines at most
#retrocomputing
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