the mips r2000 assembly language
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It’s official. I’ve gone too far. I counted my DVDs and have discovered that I have one hundred and forty eight of them in my bedroom. I have enough of a collection to have an easy time writing reviews for my new site when it comes out during Christmas Break. I started Mission Impossible on my desktop after the counting ceremony. I love this movie because it really was ahead of it’s time. Many people criticize it for no reason. It has superb mise-en-scen! The plot is very nicely put together. The most amazing part is how wonderfully simple the interfaces are for the computers in the film.
I’m learning assembler in a class this semester. It’s actually MAL, which is the assembly language for the MIPS R2000 architecture. I’ve learned that intel has created a lot of issues in their processor that had been fixed in pretty much all other architectures. Anyways, I have my first MAL code assignment due next Monday. To test it, we’re supposed to run a simulator remotely from a SPARC machine in the cs lab. So, we need to have x server or x11 enabled, using the ‘-X’ option, in the ssh command because the simulator for the MIPS processor is a gui program. It’s so much fun to learn new things each day of the week, although I’m very busy from here until the end of the semester.