Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/06/02/14:05:38
Erik Max Francis wrote:
>
> Adam W Lee wrote:
>
> > Not really, go read up on http://www.intel.com.. I was looking into
> > good
> > methods for P2 assembly, and according to one of the pages I read, the
> > P2
> > is basically a RISC chip which has to interpret the dinosaur 80x86
> > assembly in order to maintain backwards compatibility.
>
> Yes, but the processor can directly accept 80x86 instructions. That
> definitely makes it machine language, and thus turning source code into
> 80x86 machine language is definitely "compiling."
>
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At what level of complexity does a microprocessor cease being a
microprocessor?
Let's pick nits...
When designers moved away from strict, combinatorial logic and started
using
microcode, all machine code from that point on was interpreted...they
became
true 'computers on a chip' complete with their own interpreter in rom.
tim
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