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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Which target did you use? Having to learn even a fraction of modern x86 would be ridiculous, but SPARC or something could be good to know, just to reduce the "magic box" effect.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I learned MIPS as an undergrad. Pretty neat little RISC architecture.

[–] trolololol 4 points 4 months ago

I learned mips as graduate. In undergrad had to build with logic gates for things like 2 digit decimal counter and my architecture classes were diagram blocks for a simple CPU. But by that time we knew how to do moderate complexity circuits in VHDL simulation, and we had to make a simple VHDL circuit run for real in FPGA.

[–] jaybone 6 points 4 months ago

This was a long time ago. I’m pretty sure it was 8086.