5 Aug
2006
5 Aug
'06
8:38 p.m.
On 8/6/06, Ray Arachelian <ray at arachelian.com> wrote:
Some CPU's are a pleasure to write in assembly
for. These include the
6502's, the Motorla 68000, and SPARC's. Some are a horrible nightmare:
the intel chip for example, and to a far far lesser degree, MIPS. It's
all a matter of "taste" and experience. But if you want to code for
Intel, I highly recommend that you don't look at 68000 code or SPARC code.
Because once you see how easy those are when compared to Intel, you'll
want to cry that you now have to code in Intel assembly. :-)
Heh... I've been paid to write 6502, PDP-11, 68000, VAX, and x86
assembly over the years (mostly in the 80s). I have to agree that the
x86 was nowhere near as pleasant as any of the others.
-ethan