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Article #623305Re: Quantity of machine code programmers and quantity of Assembly programmers
From: J. Clarke
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 22:21
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 22:21
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On Sat, 28 Apr 2018 15:04:18 -0700, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote: >J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sat, 28 Apr 2018 11:45:27 -0700 (PDT), hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote: >> >>> On Saturday, April 28, 2018 at 5:37:31 AM UTC-4, Andy Leighton wrote: >>> >>>> Yeah but if you were familiar with 68000 assembly language then moving to >>>> the 8086/88 (or successors) was painful. >>> >>> Was it a problem to move from S/360 assembler to x86 assembler? >> >> I found the main problem making that move was the poor documentation >> of the x86 instruction set and the cost of a decent assembler (tiny in >> mainframe terms but large in '80s engineer paying out of pocket >> terms). >> >> Frome what I remember, and it has been a _long_ time, x86 segmentation >> is a lot different conceptually from the base/offset addressing on the >> 3x0. >> >> > >X86 segmentation is an ABOMINATION. So how would _you_ make 8080 code run on a 16-bit processor that didn't have enough clock cycles to make a soft emulator viable?
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