> Motorola advertise "CISC" (complex instruction set chip ?)

It's "CSIC". Oh no ! The spelling thread again :-)
"Customer Specified IC" - Yep. We get the leftovers from the real
customers.

> Microchip advertise "RISC", only 35 instructions etc(16cxx)
> Atmel advertise "RISC with CISC features" (similiar to MPASM with
> special instruction equivalents)

I find the Microchip / Atmel "RISC" term war to be a bit of humour.

> Scenix advertise "Virtual Pheripherals" (pre debugged? bit bangers)
The term has been around a lot longer than they have.

> > Steve Baldwin wrote:
I didn't actually. I'd just like a switch to flag the pseudo-ops as
warnings so I have the choice to use them or not.

Steve.

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