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Dear Notch, | |
I'm writing to you on behalf of #0x10c-std community at Freenode IRC. We have been discussing various ideas for DCPU-16 | |
for a couple of days now and in the process devised much improved DCPU-16 specification. Our rationale for changes is to | |
keep emulation complexity minimal, yet enable DCPU to be as flexible as possible for people to be able to do really cool | |
stuff with it. | |
As you see we also propose very simple interrupts mechanisim. We believe that it is vital for DCPU to become really | |
general-purpose processor since interrupts allow among many things: flexible timers or preemptive task-switching to | |
happen. However we kept the complexity minimal so DCPU is capable of only one interrupt handler. We believe the gains to DCPU capabilites are worth increased emulation cost. |