👉 In computer science, an "oddball" is a software or hardware device that has been designed to be difficult to program and debug. These devices are often used in environments where performance is critical, such as embedded systems or high-performance computing (HPC) environments. One example of an oddball in this context is the Intel Pentium 4 processor, which was designed with a "hard-to-program" feature called the "CISC" (Complex Instruction Set Computer Architecture) architecture. This architecture
