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From: gordonl@microsoft.UUCP (Gordon Letwin)
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Subject: Re: Microsoft, Intel comments
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A recent article attributed Microsoft with the design of the 8086/8088
assembly language.  I would say that we're flattered, but I doubt that
this was meant as a compliment.  In any case, Intel designed both the
processor and the assembly language.  Microsoft's assembler simply duplicates
the Intel assembler - opcodes, pseudos, formats, "typed" architecture, etc.

I'm not a big fan of this style of assembler - I frequently discover that
I had thought one thing and the assembler the other.  I'd gladly give up
the convenience of a "smart" assembler for the easier predictability of
a dumb one.  But, the essense of a programmer is to program ones self to
interface with the tools at hand...

	gordon letwin
	microsoft