Joseph S. Barrera III wrote:
On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Bob Applegate via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
When you need to save a few bytes, assembly is your friend.
Oh, don't misunderstand me, I have no problems with assembly. But the last assembly I wrote was probably back in 1992 or so.
Moving from 8080 to 6502 sure felt like a different programming language to me. And then 8088 did too. Addressing modes make a lot of difference.
True, but compared to a "modern" programmer that can barely understand pointers in his/her high level language... And doesn't "need" to or want to... Arg! You damn kids! Get off my lawn! Bill S. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus