On 2011-05-05, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Wed, 04 May 2011 14:22:38 -0500, harrismh777 wrote: > >> Here is the thing that everyone forgets... all we have to work with >> is a von Neumann processor. (same as EDVAC, ENIAC, the VIC20, etc). > > Actually, this is incorrect. Most processors these days are hybrids > between that and either the Harvard or Modified Harvard architecture: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Harvard_architecture > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_architecture > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture
And a lot of the are still full-up Harvard architecture (e.g. the entire Atmel AVR family and Intel 8051 family for example). -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! When this load is at DONE I think I'll wash it gmail.com AGAIN ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list