>> My first clock circuit was a 7 segment led, and I built it using a >> microprocessor, a 6502, I had little experience at the time and it >> wasnt easy.
> That is a cool processor, it was my first one to program in assembly > language back in the early 1980's. It was used in the Acorn BBC > computers, they came onto the market with a Z80 co-processor > afterwards, which became my favorite for obvious reasons. I originally learned on a 6800, but at first, I didn't have enough RAM to run an assembler, so I had to hand-assemble my code and program it in hex. Later, I got an Atari and learned its 6502 processor was similar. The Z-80 is a really nice CPU too, quite advanced when it came out. The Acorn people continued their tradition of leading edge technology by designing their own processor, the Acorn RISC Machine. Commonly called ARM, it's a leading CPU for mobile and embedded processing even today. An offshoot of it, the DEC StrongARM, was advertised as "the first supercomputer that can run on an AA cell". The ARM instruction set is quite well designed, both for writing assembly code for it directly, as well as for compiling from C. - John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
