My advice to the novice is to learn architecture at the level of something like an 8-bit PC, and to think of more advanced features as solutions to problems inh

My advice to the novice is to learn architecture at the level of something like an 8-bit PC, and to think of more advanced features as solutions to problems inherent in the systems of that era. Alternatively, an 8-bit microcontroller such as an 8051 has a similarly primitive architecture.