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From: bob@teda.UUCP (Bob Armstrong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Saturn Mnemonics
Message-ID: <17523@teda.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 90 18:11:13 GMT
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  One comment for all those who think the HP mnemonics are "awful" (and I
would have to agree): the original HP41 MCODE mnemonics are not unlike a
lot of _microcode_ mnemonics, especially for machines with relatively
vertical architectures.  If you believe that the original HP41 programmers
felt that they were microcoding a target instruction set (FOCAL in this case)
rather than writing a FOCAL interpreter in "assembly" language, things
look a lot better.

  It's all in the point of view...

Bob Armstrong