How much
on other kinds of processors? (RISC)
That should be covered in another class: computer architecture.
I don't see how the RISC vs CISC (vs VLIW vs ...) architectural question has
any chance of being meaningfully put without a reasonable knowledge of the
concepts of assembly language. Ideally teach a simple and restrictive
I would agree. I don't see how you can understand how a processor
operates, or what different architectures mean, without a knowledge of
the concepts of machine code and assembly language.
And I discovered years ago (while trying to understand how telephone
exchanges work) that it's a lot easier to understand a real example (in
this case a real assembly language for a real processor) than some
'simplified' ficticious thing that could never actually work because
important details are missing.
-tony
