22 Jun
2004
22 Jun
'04
2:54 a.m.
Andy Holt wrote:
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
That does not imply that the reverse is true also. You can still learn
assembly language without knowing anything about CISC or RISC. I think I
know very skilled people who really understand assembly programming, but
have no idea what CISC or RISC means. The way I experienced it was that
RISC suddenly appeared and only by then CISC processors where called
that way.
Regards,
Bert
How much
on other kinds of processors? (RISC)
That should be covered in another class: computer architecture.