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From: rhealey@digibd.com (Rob Healey)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Alternative mnemonics for 8086/8080/Z80
Message-ID: <1990Nov28.181344.10580@digibd.com>
Date: 28 Nov 90 18:13:44 GMT
References: <1633@madnix.UUCP> <2949@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
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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

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