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From: david@ztivax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: re: Using C as an aid to hand writin
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Date: Mon, 12-May-86 06:09:00 EDT
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Nf-From: ztivax!david    May 12 11:09:00 1986

>Here's a perverse thought: Has anyone done any research on
>architechures to help people writing /assembly language/?  (Maybe the
>PDP-11, VAX or IBM-370 architechures are optimal, or maybe no one has
>ever considered making life easier for those who spend their lives
>coding "down unda.")
>  Landon Dyer					"If Business is War, then 
>  Atari Corp.					  I'm a Prisoner of Business!"

The old MIL STD 1750 is sort of like that.  A fundamental concept is
you can do everything with anything: "orthagonality".  It really did
make it easy to program in assembler.  There are new versions which
are being made by Fairchild and Honeywell, as I remember, and are
very fast.

-- David Smyth
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