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From: scoii@mips.COM (Randy Scofield)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Official comments on recent ARM postings
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Date: 27 Feb 90 07:35:15 GMT
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In article <11245@encore.Encore.COM> jkenton@pinocchio.encore.com (Jeff Kenton) writes:
>From article <8948@wpi.wpi.edu>, by jhallen@wpi.wpi.edu (Joseph H Allen):
>> 
>> (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.
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>Any other opinions? We haven't had a good religious war in a week or two.
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It is true that I am biased, so I usually stay out of such conversations.
I believe the Rx000 family is well suited to assembly code writing.
I like general purpose resisters, and lots of them.  Since the compiler
guys take care of all the interlock issues, the source code is pretty simple.
And simple is best, unless all you do is write assembly code,
and need job security. :-]
And besides, once you have felt the response time on a Mips based machine,
there is no going back!!
Randy
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