zaphod@madnix.UUCP (Ron Bean) (11/24/90)
In Article <9333@b11.ingr.com>, lhughes@b11.ingr.com (Lawrence Hughes) writes: >.................. But the crowning glory of the 8086 introduction was one >of the silliest symbolic assembly languages ever introduced (ever hear of a >STRONGLY TYPED assembler?). I figure this was concocted by some PASCAL nuts >who had fried their brains on structured programming, or some such. I always wondered why nobody did anything about this before Borland's TASM (which happened years later). >Again, >several folks attemped to design and support saner assembly language, resulting >in another fine mess (was that written with the Microsoft/Intel or Digital >Research mnemonics?). WHAT??? I've never heard about that one. Is it still available? (For a reasonable price?) Did anyone ever write a conversion program? ALSO: In Article <2682@cirrusl.UUCP>, dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes: >...................... Intel essentially replaced Zilog's LD with MOV, >and replaced Zilog's parentheses (denoting indirection) by sqare >brackets. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Intel's square brackets don't necessarily denote indirection. That's one of the things Borland fixed in TASM. ================== zaphod@madnix.UUCP (Ron Bean) {harvard|rutgers|ucbvax}!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!zaphod
davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) (11/27/90)
In article <1633@madnix.UUCP> zaphod@madnix.UUCP (Ron Bean) writes: | In Article <2682@cirrusl.UUCP>, dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com | (Rahul Dhesi) writes: | | >...................... Intel essentially replaced Zilog's LD with MOV, | >and replaced Zilog's parentheses (denoting indirection) by sqare | >brackets. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Call me a silly minimalist, but the idea of replace load, store, and move mnemonics with one MOV for data movement seems like a great idea. I'm not defending any other part of the language, but that one psrt of it seems to be at least as good as having a bunch of terms for the same thing. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.
rhealey@digibd.com (Rob Healey) (11/29/90)
In article <2949@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes: >In article <1633@madnix.UUCP> zaphod@madnix.UUCP (Ron Bean) writes: >| In Article <2682@cirrusl.UUCP>, dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com >| (Rahul Dhesi) writes: >| >...................... Intel essentially replaced Zilog's LD with MOV, >| >and replaced Zilog's parentheses (denoting indirection) by sqare >| >brackets. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Umm, call me silly but weren't the Zilog mnemonics created AFTER the Intel mnemonics? Last I checked the Z80 was created AFTER the 8080, NOT before it. Cart leading horse here maybe??? I happen to prefer Zilog's notation over Intel's but I am a Z80 fan... 8080, 8085; YUK! -Rob #include <std/disclaimers.h> I speak for me and noone/thing else.