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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Alternative mnemonics for 8086/8080/Z80
Message-ID: <2949@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 26 Nov 90 17:58:50 GMT
References: <1633@madnix.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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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.