Re: YAA -- Yet Another Acronym

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From: ma... jim frost
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 1990 01:33

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scli...@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Scott Charles Lindhurst) writes:
>6502 assembler mnemonics were all 3 letters long [...]
>(And the different mnemonics (and different
>opcodes, too) probably made writing assemblers easier.)

Sure did, although disassemblers where what really needed tight code.

jim frost
saber software
ji...@saber.com

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From: ma...@world.std.com (jim frost)
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Subject: Re: YAA -- Yet Another Acronym
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