5 Feb
2021
5 Feb
'21
4:11 a.m.
On Fri, 5 Feb 2021, Dave Horsfall wrote:
The Z80 was quite nice; I wrote heaps of programs for
it, and I even found an
ANSI C Compiler for it (Hi-Tech as I recall; BDS-C was, well, you could
barely call it "C")[*]. I compiled a number of Unix programs...
Well, it *was* "Braindead Software" C.
<snip>
The x86 architecture is utterly brain-dead; I mean,
what's wrong with a
linear address space? I think it was JohnG who said "segment registers
are for worms".
The 65816 doesn't have the screwed-up bitshifted segment stuff but it's
also a segmented architecture and is also braindead.
And I'm a 65C02 fan.
-uso.