Ok, I will follow your suggestions. Thank you for suggestions. savio
> I think you have deciide exactly *what* you want to program. If > you want to mess around with hardware, e.g. blinking an LED or driving > a LED display or something like that, or build a small controller such > as a thermostat or a hottub controller, then the best way to do that is > to buy an 80x51 series microcontroller. Those things are almost > completely self contained and have a little 8 bit microprocessor on them. > They can't run anything sophisticated but they're the best way to learn > how to program a processor. They are also extremely cheap, in the > $3-$15 range typically. And you can very easily breadboard them. > High-end chips like the ultrasparc, or intel, or amd.... those are very > complex cpus and frankly you are better off simply writing assembly > from inside a real operating system, like DragonFly (or any unix) and > running it that way, instead of on bare hardware. > Well, just staring at the code isn't going to get you very far. > I'd recommending running on of the above OS's and getting to know > its build system for utilities and such, then mess around with > select bits of code, make changes, see how it works, etc. You > have to actively manipulate the source code to get a real feel for > it. -- only the paranoid will survive