logoalt Hacker News

dmitrygr • 02/20/2025 • 2 replies • view on HN

There already is an 8bit architecture designed for C: AVR

Replies

nxobject • 02/20/2025

There's also an 8-bit architecture designed for emulating 32-bit architectures: AVR!

(https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linux%20on%208bi... ... and, yes, that's the joke, it's still an amazing hack more than a decade later!)

v1ne • 02/20/2025

Yep, and AVR-8 has excellent documentation, is easy to learn and I find really fun to work with.

Honestly, AVR-8 is the reason I'm really into low-level hardware. If I would have started with amd64, I guess I would have given up long before.