Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

1. HP PA-RISC. "Big RISC" of the mid 80s-90s. Now practically dead.

2. Intel 8051. 8-bit microcontroller which now is found as a core in countless SoCs long after Intel stopped making them. You probably own and use something every day which has an 8051 or 8051-core MCU in it.




The 8051 is a weird enough architecture, especially by modern standards, that having an upward-growing stack is barely even a footnote.

(Examples of its weirdness: it only has one general-purpose register; it has three address spaces, some of which are bank-switched; every register other than the program counter exists in memory; some memory locations are bit-addressable...)


Microchip PIC16 has similar weird features - some versions have a fixed hardware stack of maximum 8 entries.


Dealing with the memory alignment of PIC24 always breaks my mind.


I went to the AVR as soon as I found it. Much nicer.




Join us for AI Startup School this June 16-17 in San Francisco!

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: