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From: n233dk@tamuts.tamu.edu (Rick Grevelle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Saturn Mnemonics
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Date: 30 Nov 90 00:50:23 GMT
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>grahamf@hparc0.HP.COM (Graham Fraser) writes:

>>Why are people re-inventing the wheel,  and developing their own sets of 
>>Saturn mnemonics ???   There seems to be at least two sets being circulated
>>at the moment,  and neither follows the HP mnemonics.

>I certainly feel more at home with Alonzo's set of instructions and apparently
>so do most of the other mc programmers on this newsgroup too, since all code
>that I have seen has been written using this instruction set.

>Who says that just because HP use one (rather odd) set of mnemonics, that that
>set _has_ to be the best ??  OK, they may have invented it first, and it may
>be the one used internally (within HP that is), but that doesn't necessitate
>that we must conform to that standard. Besides, HP have as much access to
>the free Alonzo-mnemonic assemblers as the rest of us ;-) ;-) 

I agree.  Even an idiot could see that Alonzo's instruction set is superior to
the one used by HP.  Only now am I able to use the IDS mnemonics.  Because I'd 
no previous experience with machine language programing, the Mier book did very
little to help me; the primary reason being the IDS mnemonics it utilized.  It 
was Alonzo's Processor Notes that gave me the necessary understanding to begin 
programing the 28 in machine language.  An individual who would complain about
having another set of mnemonics which serves to facillate the use of the Saturn
language to more people, should reexamine their position on the issue.

Rick Grevelle