"CaveLamb" wrote in message
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Ed Huntress wrote:
"Winston" wrote in message
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CaveLamb wrote:

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Thing is, Iggy, once you think the way the machine works and
have routines, Assembly language can go together very quickly.

And you have complete and total control of the system.
And Assembly can be a lot of fun, too!

--Winston

I found assembly (8080A, Z80, and 80C85) fairly easy after learning to
program my HP RPN calculator. d8-)

Anybody with a function brain stem can learn 8080, et al.
They were meant to be easy.

The Z-80 mnemonics made more sense to me.


On the slow old desktop computers (and especially on my RS M100 -- what
was the clock speed, 1.5 kHz??), a dab of assembly here in there made it
much easier to tolerate the interpreted BASIC that was churning away on
top...

(it actually was around 2 MHz. I exaggerated for effect. d8-))



There was this one Kaypro that I had ran 12 MHZ.
Interpreted BASIC was ok on that.

But compiled BASIC made the world go 'round...
Also ran Pascal, C (just ordinary C) Nevada Fortran.

But the best buzz was AZM the Z80 Macro Assembler.

They were fun days.
You could still do things . . .

Yeah, but the fact is, in the beginning, we HAD to do things. I was writing
BASIC routines to do all sorts of arithmetic calculations. When I got
VisiCalc, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.

The Apple word processors of the day would crash right in the middle of
writing an article, and you couldn't recover a damned thing.


March some dots across the screen and make your fortune
in the video game market.


--

Richard Lamb