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From: rb@ccivax.UUCP (rex ballard)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: structured assembler
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Date: Tue, 11-Feb-86 22:47:48 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 11 22:47:48 1986
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In article <463@kontron.UUCP> cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>> Is it worth it for portability to have
>> programs that run at half the speed (or less) than the computer is
>> capable of (or will it matter if they make computers go fast enough)?
>
>Ask all those companies that right now are wishing they could move their
>8088 assembler language programs over to the Atari.

Or anyone who is bound to PDP-11 emulation mode on a VAX because the macro
processor is integrated into the assembler.  Structured assembler requires
a lot of macro definitions which are not always compatible.  Even writing
m4 macros can lead to surpises.