Bifrons (disambiguation)

Bifrons is Latin for "two-faced" and may refer to:

Geography

Bifrons, an estate (hence also Bifrons Hill, Bifrons Road) in Patrixbourne, Kent, England
Bifrons (age), a subdivision of the Jurassic Lias Group named after the estate

Mythology

Janus, the god of beginnings and transitions in ancient Roman religion and mythology
Bifrons (demon), in demonology, a demon, Earl of Hell, with at least six legions of demons under his command
Bifrons (Dungeons & Dragons), a Duke of Hell in the service of Mephistopheles, in the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game

gollark: IIRC an advantage of ARM used to be not having instruction-to-microinstruction conversion like x86 does, but I think their cores do that now.

gollark: I guess ARM has the "Thumb" thing.

gollark: Both are very CISCy.

gollark: Is ARM actually *that* different to x86 at this point?

gollark: Also, with syscalls you can do stuff like "input" and "output" and "writing to disk".

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