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From: zaphod@madnix.UUCP (Ron Bean)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Alternative mnemonics for 8086/8080/Z80
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Date: 24 Nov 90 13:22:20 GMT
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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.
 
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zaphod@madnix.UUCP (Ron Bean)
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