Winston wrote:
Ed Huntress wrote:
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-)

Yup. Assembly would have been a 'step down' in complexity
after that!

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...

I must have been on the 'bleeding edge' then.
My first computer roared along at 2.5 MHz.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_820

I thought Visicalc was the cat's pajamas!


Visicalc WAS!

Still is, although there are considerably more polished spreadsheets now.

But yeah. Suddenly there was a new way to play computer!

and it really really worked!




'Course I paid $5K for the setup.
Over $11K in today's funny money.

Yikes!

--Winston


Yeah... I paid $3G for Autocad (10).
Turned out I hated Autocad.
It was about as handy as a rock for drawing.

Been working with Design CAD ever since.
For $69




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Richard Lamb
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