[Gllug] Re: Dual core AMDs

[Nix]

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, John Hearns wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 01:39 +0100, Nix wrote:
> 
>> > No, it was the standard programming model. (Well, for *sane* programmers...)
>> 
>> Real Programmers made up fake instructions instead. (The 6502 was RISC
>> before RISC was cool, only they didn't document it.)
> Real Programmers write self-modifying code.

Real Programmers write self-modifying code using fake instructions on
the 6502 in a disk drive.

(been there)

:)

> I was taught to do this at Uni (on a pretend machine instruction set).

The 8086 would have been favourite (see the implementation functions to
call interrupts in many high-level language implementations of the
time).

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