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In today standards learn MIPS can be a good bridge to x86?
by Rzor 13y ago
In today standards learn MIPS can be a good bridge to x86?
- pjmlp 13y agoOnly as a mean to learn how it feels to program in Assembly in terms of tooling and talking directly to the machine. In terms of architecture or opcodes, there is hardly any relation.
- tptacek 13y agoNot really. If you believe that RISC is a good way to learn X86 by breaking you in on assembly language in a strict load-store, simple addressing-mode context, then ARM is a more reasonable first ISA to learn. Many thousands of teenagers picked up X86 (and X86 protected mode!) from nothing more than the MASM Bible during the 1990s, so rather than overcomplicate things, I might just say "don't let yourself get intimidated" and dive right into X86.