From: peter at rulingia.com (Peter Jeremy)
Subject: [COFF] [TUHS] 68k prototypes & microcode
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2021 20:09:44 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YB0LWOD/002LDlNP@server.rulingia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210204013356.GA16541@mcvoy.com>
On 2021-Feb-03 17:33:56 -0800, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
>The x86 stuff is about as far away from PDP-11 as you can get. Required
>to know it, but so unpleasant.
Warts upon warts upon warts. The complete opposite of orthogonal.
>I have to admit that I haven't looked at ARM assembler, the M1 is making
>me rethink that. Anyone have an opinion on where ARM lies in the pleasant
>to unpleasant scale?
I haven't spent enough time with ARM assembler to form an opinion but
there are a number of interesting interviews with the designers on YT:
* A set of videos by Sophie Wilson (original designer) starting at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhwwrSaHdh8
* A history of ARM by Dave Jaggar (redesigner) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6sh097Dk5k
If you don't want to pony up for a M1, there are a wide range of ARM
SBCs that you could experiment with.
--
Peter Jeremy
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