Think about it, if Ken Olsen hadn't been so dismissive of the idea of a Personal
Computer, we might have had J11-based desktops. After all, a J11 with MMU could address
4MB, instead of the anemic 1MB of the 8086/88. -- Ian
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Subject: Re: The value of assembler language programmers [was RE: Algol vs Fortran
was RE: VHDL vs Verilog]
Dave McGuire wrote:
ARMs are damn near impossible to program in
assembler. That's why
everyone uses C in that world. Lots of [modern incarnation] Z80, Z8,
8051, and low-end PIC development is done, both professionally and
otherwise, in assembler today. Since those architectures aren't
changing, and it's mainly done that way because of the architectures, I
doubt it'll ever change. It certainly hasn't yet.
What we need is a J11/T11 chip again, so we can program MACRO11 again ;-)
(I know of the rumor, that the msp430 is loved by old pdp11 guys)