"Derek D. Martin" wrote:
> > I might also mention here that I'm NOT a complete newbie to assembly. > I've written some 6502 machine language BY HAND (i.e. poking the > opcodes into memory and calling them), ... newbie. if you weren't you'd know that writing assembly by hand involved setting the console bit switches for each instruction and then hitting the appropriate switch to deposit the binary code (usually 12 or 16 bits, in my experience) into memory. Memory address settings, load/modify/store sequences, etc. were topics to be mastered by all serious students of the art. True masters could accomplish all this sans papyrus in any form, hence it was truly writing (I myself was usually barely above journeyman, although sometimes I could attain master status for simple sequences of frequently used instructions, usually at most a dozen or so). :-) -Bruce McCulley ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
