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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
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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.
> 
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>       jeff kenton  ---	temporarily at jkenton@pinocchio.encore.com	 
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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