Childhood dream

When I was really little (like four) I said I wanted to go to MIT and build bridges. Well... I'm almost there.

When I was really little (like four) I said I wanted to go to MIT and build bridges. Well... I'm almost there.

There are people who wanted to build bridges and later become politicians..

You wanted to go to MIT when you were four? Wow.. ambitious.

I wanted to program in and understand machine code... I've since realized that this is not practical, though I do deal in assembly and on rare occation have to encode or decode an instruction or two in machine code directly.

What caused you to have such a dream, and at what age?

Really young. I've programmed computers since elementry school, mostly in BASIC. I wanted the power to do more. I finally learned x86 assembly the summer after 9th grade. To date I've dealt with assembly for x86, some Atmel family, Microchip PIC16x, Infineon C166, and ARMv4.

My childhood dream was to be an architect since I loved to design and make structures. I guess I'm half achieving that, If I pursue my current dream. I want to become a civil engineer and get an MBA.

What is ARM?

It's the processor in some mobile phones, ain't it?

ARM stands for Advanced RISC Machines, and is the name of an IP company that designs processing cores called by the same name. Processors and microcontrollers built arround these cores have widely varrying capabilities and could appear in anything from a handheld computer to a freebie USB thumb drive.

ARMv4 is the name of a particular family of cores, all sharing a certain instruction set and other features.

There are people who wanted to build bridges and later become politicians..

I may become a politician on a small scale one day..