6 Aug
2006
6 Aug
'06
10:21 a.m.
On Saturday 05 August 2006 11:38 pm, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On 8/6/06, Ray Arachelian <ray at
arachelian.com> wrote:
It is *so* nice to find others that feel this way... :-)
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
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.