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		riffraff 61 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Story of Mel, A Real Programmer, Annotated (19... I had a class (in the late 90s/00s) where we had to code to a theoretical RISCish CPU, but the teacher had built a simulator for it which allowed you to inspect registries, flags, execute instructions step by step etc It was quite entertaining.

marco_craveiro 60 days ago [–]

Same here. We used LMC [1] before we moved to a real architecture.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Man_Computer

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