Language-specific CPUs was Re: uIEC/SD == AWESOME!

[Dave McGuire]

On Jan 2, 2009, at 2:29 AM, Jochen Kunz wrote:
>>     AVR microcontrollers are said optimized for C, but there is an
>> excellent assembler, the AVR Studio.
> They are "optimized for C" in the sense that there architecture makes
> it easy to implement C. (Flat memory, lots of registers, stack ...) I
> did a project in AVR assembler. AVRs are much easier to assembler code
> then the i8051. (The i8051 is a braindead, awkward POS. A typical  
> intel
> design... I used it once and will never again.) Today I do all my uC
> hacking with avr-gcc. The oposit may be the PIC. Due to the PIC
> architecture a C implementation is a bit tricky.

   I dunno, I rather like the mcs51 architecture.  I use it quite a  
bit.  Far nicer than other Intel designs.

           -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL