Comment by dmitrygr Comment by dmitrygr 2 days ago 2 replies Copy Link View on Hacker News There already is an 8bit architecture designed for C: AVR
Copy Link nxobject a day ago Next Collapse Comment - There's also an 8-bit architecture designed for emulating 32-bit architectures: AVR!(https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linux%20on%208bi... ... and, yes, that's the joke, it's still an amazing hack more than a decade later!) Reply View | 0 replies
Copy Link v1ne 2 days ago Prev Collapse Comment - Yep, and AVR-8 has excellent documentation, is easy to learn and I find really fun to work with.Honestly, AVR-8 is the reason I'm really into low-level hardware. If I would have started with amd64, I guess I would have given up long before. Reply View | 0 replies
There's also an 8-bit architecture designed for emulating 32-bit architectures: AVR!
(https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linux%20on%208bi... ... and, yes, that's the joke, it's still an amazing hack more than a decade later!)