Do Intel Use Risc or Cisc ??

[Zathras]

Yay! Am I also right in recalling that ARM processors don't (or didn't) have any floating-point arithmatic functions, and all float arythmatic was emulated using integers - slowly IIRC. this meant that ported code that was pretty much just re-compiled from a PC to an Acorn tended to crawl, but if it was re-written only using ints, it flew.

There were a limited number of ARM processors with hardware FP, such as the ARM7500FE used in the RiscStation and A7000+, but on the whole Acorn computers didn't have hardware FP which required rewrites of FP stuff. Modern ARM processors come with FP variants.
http://www.embedded.com/showArticle....icleID=9900220
http://www.heyrick.co.uk/assembler/proctype.html

[stytagm]

This thread, and those two links in particular (thanks zathras) have cheered me up no end, nothign like wading in nostalga. Really want to dig out my old Risc-PC to play star-fighter 3000 and give arm-linux a try.

(Another thing that's cheered me up was buying a Geforce 6800 - but that's irrelevant to this thread - like most of my posts )