2hnemarrow@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (04/20/91)
In article <3360@kluge.fiu.edu>, acmfiu@serss0.fiu.edu (ACMFIU) writes: > Second, Assmbly(-er) Languages are machine-specific, and give surprising > little understanding about machines in general. Sure, you'll learn about > registers and memory, but everything else is different. Would you advise > learning 6502 Assembly(-er), with two registers and an accumulator (and > correspondingly ugly code), a VAX 9000 with an amazing powerful instruction > set, or a RISC machine with its simple instructions, pipelines and zillions > of registers? Actually, that's a very good reason to start with 6502 assembly. It's a very basic processor with only a few registers from which you can get a much better understanding of what is fundamentally going on in your computer's innerds. (Notice I copied less than 120 lines of quote for my three.) -- As any politician will tell you, | 2hnemarrow@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu <- til 5/15 you can fool all the people some | PPark@volta.ece.ukans.edu <- too slow :-P of the time, and some of the !------------------------------------------ people all the time, and usually that's enough -- Robert Orben ''''''''''''