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The 34010 was indeed a sweet chip. I once wrote a Forth compiler for it in assembler as an exercise. Coding graphics in Forth was a joy. And yes, Intel's instr
by dreamcompiler 9y ago
The 34010 was indeed a sweet chip. I once wrote a Forth compiler for it in assembler as an exercise. Coding graphics in Forth was a joy.
And yes, Intel's instruction sets are so butt-ugly they make everybody else's look beautiful by comparison. I really wish almost any other chip had won the war for that reason. I'm encouraged by the rising profile of ARM.