Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ulowell!m2c!wpi!dseah From: dseah@wpi.wpi.edu (David I Seah) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Disassemblers Message-ID: <2030@wpi.wpi.edu> Date: 25 Apr 89 02:04:01 GMT References: <8904182009.aa24817@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> <2584@puff.cs.wisc.edu> Reply-To: dseah@wpi.wpi.edu (David I Seah) Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. USA Lines: 16 In article <2584@puff.cs.wisc.edu> blochowi@cat28.CS.WISC.EDU (Jason Blochowiak) writes: > As far as APW vs. Orca for the //gs goes, if I remember right, there's >more of a difference between them than the macros (a few utility programs >worth of difference), but they are the same basic package (things written for >one will work with the other one). As to why the macros are different, I'd >imagine it's because "ph2" is more cryptic than "PushWord", and Apple seems to >prefer things that are less cryptic (more verbose :( ). Not that anyone who >understands 6502 should be able to figure out what ph2 does... Matter of >philosophy, I guess. I once sent mail to Mike Westerfield about the macros, because I was using Orca/M and my friend was using APW. He said something to the effect that Apple wasn't interested in providing standard macros between the products, so he was trying to buy them from them. Dave Seah (dseah@wpi.wpi.edu, dseah@wpi.bitnet)