Gee, Bruce - you had switches? All I had was a board full of diodes, a pair of dikes and a soldering iron! ;^)
Ones and Zeros? All we had were ones! -Alex Wirth's Law: Software gets slower faster than Hardware gets faster! "On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux." - Anonymous Want to know what it looked like 1, 10, 100, 1000, 1,000,000 years ago? Just look up on a clear night! On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Lowell Bruce McCulley wrote: > > "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. > ***************************************************************** > > ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
