On 6/23/26 14:32, ben via cctalk wrote:
On 2026-06-23 8:55 a.m., Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
On 6/22/26 18:34, Jim Davis via cctalk wrote:
The AMD 2900 microcode assembler was written in FORTRAN.
As well as
the Z80 assembler, 1982.
I was building a machine for my own use around AMD 2903
bit slices back in about 1981, planning to execute a
superset of the 360 instruction set. I wrote a microcode
assembler in Pascal.
Jon
Did you use, PASCAL for any special reason, or was it the
only thing around?
I actually LIKE Pascal! I had some version of Pascal on my
Z-80 CP/M system, and I used Pascal for all complicated
programs, like cross assemblers. Since I had already
written several cross assemblers in Pascal, I was able to
re-use a large chunk of the code and just write the
2903-specific parts.
Jon
