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Re: out of sheer curiosity... [message #177444 is a reply to message #177441] Fri, 30 March 2012 03:52 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Tim Streater wrote:
> 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.
>
of course. mostly when actually zapping hardware. Unless your C library
has specific hardware access stuff. And interrupt routine hooks.





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