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76 points mpweiher | 3 comments | 17 Feb 25 21:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.509s | source

1. dmitrygr ◴[20 Feb 25 16:37 UTC] No.43116817[source]▶

There already is an 8bit architecture designed for C: AVR

2. v1ne ◴[20 Feb 25 18:47 UTC] No.43118493[source]▶

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.

3. nxobject ◴[20 Feb 25 21:43 UTC] No.43120664[source]▶

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!)

F8 – an 8 bit architecture designed for C and memory efficiency [video]