[sdiy] uC languages

[John L Marshall]

Wasn't the PDP-8 the ultimate RISC? Eight instructions? Only one branching
instruction.
In the early days, Bad Bill of Redmond, Washington wrote all his
applications on a PDP-10 (2060).


----- Original Message -----
From: Magnus Danielson <cfmd at swipnet.se>
To: <buchty at cs.tum.edu>
Cc: <sschneid at bigpond.net.au>; <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 7:13 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] uC languages


> From: Rainer Buchty <buchty at cs.tum.edu>
> Subject: RE: [sdiy] uC languages
> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 03:03:29 +0100 (MET)
>
> > > (In fact I love 68K assembly the most)
> >
> > 11th commandment:
> > Thou shalt not use any assembly language besides 6502 and 6809.
>
> Not entierly correct. If you are fluent in PDP-11 or VAX-11 that is
> accepted too. If you usually hack on your private PDP-10 or Cray-1,
> then you are certainly allowed to deviate!
>
> Nobody has volenteered to do an Alpha based thing! I *really* want one
> ;O)
>
> But seriously. People complain about not being able to get C compilers
> for microprocessors. There is one out there which do have things like
> ARM, AVR, 68k, 68HC11, S390 support and you can find out more about it
> here:
>
> http://www.fsf.org/software/gcc/gcc.html
>
> You can (if you are a bit handy) add more support to it.
>
> It does quite alot of various optimization tricks and they keep adding
> to them. There are allways some commercial compilers that are better
> on some architecture, but GCC do a hell of a job most of the
> time. It's not bad. There are still things to improve, but that is
> especially on modern RISCs.
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus