Currently reading about 8080 / 8085 assembly language, a subject of interest as the M100 uses an 8085. I am familiar with the concepts of assembly language and with the syntax of some other assemblers and processors' instruction sets, but this is terra incognita to me.
Even stranger is the fact that one book, *8080 8085 Software Design* (Sams, 1978) by Christopher Titus, Peter Rony, David Larsen and Jonathan Titus, has examples written in a syntax and format which differs from any other assembler I have seen. The assembler is of the authors' own design and is known by the acronym "TEA". Instead of four-delimited-fields-across format the assembler uses a one-byte-per-line format, i.e. a three-byte instruction, such as JMP, is written on three separate lines. Also notable is the fact that labels are delimited with a comma, rather than colon, and comments with a forward slash rather than a semicolon. And to top it off, the radix for numerical values is octal, which the authors claim is easier for beginners to learn. (Until now I had thought that octal went the way of high-button shoes and buggy whips.) So my questions are: Is anyone familiar with this assembler? There was a book about its use, now out of print, but is a copy of the assembler itself available anywhere? Thanks for your assistance, -CH- <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=icon> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=link> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>
