I recommend starting out with an 8 bit micro like the 6800, 8080, or 6502.
The manufactures used to make evaluation kits for these micros. The kits
usually had 6 digit displays (4 digits for address and 2 digits for data)
and a small keyboard. I'd stay away from the new 'RISC' micros. RISC might
be good for high level language, but it's terrible for assembly language.
--
Bob D.
"Stephen Kellett" <snail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> In message <HyM8b.21296$dk4.662667@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Randall R Schulz
> <rrschulz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>>I did learn PDP-11 assembly and wrote programs in it for one of my
>>undergraduate courses (among other things, this was the course in
>>which the concept of recursive subroutines were introduced in the CS
>>curriculum of that institution in that era). The instruction set is so
>>elegant and the opcode formats so regular and predictable, that for
>>years I could use the front panel switches (!) to key in an interrupt
>>driven routine to echo keyboard input back to the TTY / CRT.
>
> You know, when I was a lad, I had to live in a hole in the road, and
take
> a bath in the puddles when it rained. These youngsters today, they don't
> know how easy they have it!
>
> Seriously Randall, thats a fabulous story you have there. I've never
> programmed anything via switches on the front. I think I should be
> relieved to say that. Either your college was underfunded, or you are
> older than I?
>
> Stephen
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> Stephen Kellett
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