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Re: out of sheer curiosity... [message #177441 is a reply to message #177438] Thu, 29 March 2012 21:07 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Tim Streater is currently offline  Tim Streater
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In article <jl250b$lkq$1(at)news(dot)albasani(dot)net>,
The Natural Philosopher <tnp(at)invalid(dot)invalid> wrote:

> Erwin Moller wrote:

>> Nice!
>> And I feel like a relic now with my 6502 hands-on experience. ;-)
>>
> I've coded 8080, z80, 8088, 8086 and 6809.. after that it was mostly
> done in C...

I found I could do a decent job on the 7090 and Sigma7, and a very
decent job on the 68000. 6502/Z80/8080 were simple but hard to do very
much with. I avoided the x86. The IBM/360 definitely had the worst I've
ever seen. PDP-11 and VAX were quite good.

> C is just a faster way to write quality assembler.

While this is true, there are times when machine code is unavoidable.

--
Tim

"That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed,
nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted" -- Bill of Rights 1689
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