On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Larry McVoy <lm at bitmover.com> wrote: > There is close zero chance I'll ever use this stuff, unless I retire > to teaching in which case I'll make people write PDP-11 assembler. That seems a tad archaic. MIPS might be a better choice; it's 32-bit with 32 registers, and there are excellent simulators for it.