Standards/Protocols Discussion

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I wrote a specification for an IS which I think is pretty neat: http://mortie.org/?webapp=compiler_16/morcore_spec.txt. It should be fairly easy to implement.

Even though your instruction set lacks some necessary features like basic pointer operations and (hardware) interrupt handling, I nevertheless think it's a good IS to base the standard(s) one(s) on. (+1 for the stack)

I really love the IS, but one thins that bugged me, was the fact that there were stacks. Not everyone uses stacksor know how to use/implement one.

Really, a stack is necessary as it is the most sane (and probably most efficient) way of implementing (nested) function calls.

I really don't think multiple variations of the standard IS would be a good idea.

I am actually hoping we can compile a list of "standard" instruction sets (based on the actual target hardware). So, for instance, we can have three categories:

1. Basic Processing Units (In essence, ALU + RAM + I/O)
   
2. Advanced Systems (Pointers, Interrupts, Several I/O devices - protocol implementations)
   
3. Multi-core/Multi-user/Multi-thread Systems (Process and User management, Virtual Memory - MMUs e.t.c.)