> Have you seen the Intel/AMD CPU manuals? Yes. I've programmed the x86 architecture in assembly extensively, including an embedded system BootROM, as well as

> Have you seen the Intel/AMD CPU manuals? Yes. I've programmed the x86 architecture in assembly extensively, including an embedded system BootROM, as well as various high level languages. By simplicity, I'm referring to the simplicity of the instruction operations, not the complexity of the architecture with its dearth of general purpose registers and heavy use of special purpose registers. (Once you get into expanded 32 bit and 64 bit modes, the register mess is somewhat better.) The complexity of the x86 architecture was due to inheritance and expansion from the 8080 architecture which drove the use of special purpose registers. It had nothing to do with high level languages and definitely not C. The world has wasted an incredible number of engineer-hours working around the limitations of the x86 architecture. The "designed for C" label on architectures is simply marketing-speak for "you know how bad the x86 is, we are much better" without actually naming their competition.