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Article #22668Re: Official comments on recent ARM postings
From: Charles Simmons
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1990 05:26
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1990 05:26
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In article <11245@encore.Encore.COM>, jkenton@pinocchio.encore.com (Jeff Kenton) writes: > Motorola's 88000 is pretty nice for writing assembly language, and MIPS looks > decent too, although I haven't tried it. No opinion on SPARC, but Intel's 860 > looks a little baroque. > > Any other opinions? We haven't had a good religious war in a week or two. > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > jeff kenton --- temporarily at jkenton@pinocchio.encore.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Of course, we note that on the MIPS processor, it's kind of foolish to program in assembly language. There isn't much that you can do in assembly language that you can't get the compiler to do for you. -- Chuck
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!oracle!news From: csimmons@jewel.oracle.com (Charles Simmons) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Official comments on recent ARM postings Message-ID: <1990Feb28.052618.25940@oracle.com> Date: 28 Feb 90 05:26:18 GMT References: <11245@encore.Encore.COM> <8948@wpi.wpi.edu> Sender: news@oracle.com Reply-To: csimmons@oracle.com Organization: Oracle Corp Lines: 19