Re: Any benefit to programming a RISC processor by hand?

In article <7zejawunio.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, torbenm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Torben
=?iso-8859-1?Q?=C6gidius?= Mogensen) wrote:

When ARM was designed, one of the requirements was fast emulation of
6502 code (for emulating a BBC micro in software),

That was when Acorn owned ARM, the processor was designed for a machine
that would replace the BBC micro in schools which was Acorn's main
market. Annoyingly I have forgotten the name. Acorn of course designed
and built the BBC micro.

Ken Young
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