uIEC/SD == AWESOME!

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Jules Richardson wrote:
> Chuck Guzis wrote:
>> On 31 Dec 2008 at 18:52, Tony Duell wrote:
>>
>>> Hnag on a second. Last week yopu were all telling me that I could 
>>> program just about any modern microcontroller using whatever classic 
>>> computer I liked. Now you're telling me I have to use C (and 
>>> presumably have some machine that can host the C compiler). Which is 
>>> it? :-)
>>
>> Are there any uCs made that don't have an assembly language?
> 
> That possibly depends on the definition of assembly. To me it's 
> something along the lines of "the lowest-level instructions that can be 
> fed to the CPU" (even if those instructions might be quite involved and 
> do multiple things),  so it's hard to imagine a CPU that didn't 
> essentially support assembly.

IBM mainframe architecture resembles this remark.  Evidenced by the 
instructions for unpacking packed-decimal numbers, stripping off leading 
zeros, putting a dollar-sign in front of the whole thing, and storing 
the result.  All in a single instruction.

Peace...  Sridhar