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From: jkenton@pinocchio.encore.com (Jeff Kenton)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Official comments on recent ARM postings
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Date: 27 Feb 90 02:08:50 GMT
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From article <8948@wpi.wpi.edu>, by jhallen@wpi.wpi.edu (Joseph H Allen):
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> (otherwise, I like ARM very much.  A RISC processor you can actually program
> assembly language in!  How fast is the latest ARM these days?)

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.



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