6802 with OS/9 Contract

[NickFitz]

I assume you mean "LOOP", but I didn't think that was in z80. I can't say I've ever used it in x86 either, nothing wrong with dec and a jump not zero.

DJNZ label

Nothing wrong with

DEX
BNE label

IM(&Y)HO

[NickFitz]

The've always been fashionable. You just forgot where to look.

With regards to the RISC vs CISC debate, just look at the money ARM has made...

I used to muck about with ARM assembler about fifteen years ago on an Acorn A3000 - writing sprite routines and so on.

I should have stuck with it

[Churchill]

I used to muck about with ARM assembler about fifteen years ago on an Acorn A3000 - writing sprite routines and so on.

I should have stuck with it

I did.

I loved the Archimedes', lovely machines.

Have a gander at... Castle Technology...

[RichardCranium]

It's trivial, but it's bugging me.

Can I just say ...

... Apple ][

?

[RichardCranium]

Hijacking this thread again...

I worked on an Apple Lisa for a while.

It was staggeringly exciting machine. I went to it from MP/M and was awe-struck with the leap in the interface.

I was a gorgeous machine to use and a delight to do development work on it. I haven't a clue what it was we were developing, but it never sold.

When I first used a computer (some form of Altair) I had an epiphany: I suddenly knew what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

But the feeling I had when I saw the Lisa completely overwhelmed that. I couldn't believe such an immense leap from the command line to the intuitive Lisa interface was possible. It was, without doubt, the way the world was headed.





This was "Richard Cranium's Tulipe Conclusions". Number 7 in a series of 136.

[Platypus]

It's trivial, but it's bugging me.

Can I just say ...

... Apple ][

?

Yes you may. Well remembered !

[Churchill]

Hijacking this thread again...

I worked on an Apple Lisa for a while.

It was staggeringly exciting machine. I went to it from MP/M and was awe-struck with the leap in the interface.

I was a gorgeous machine to use and a delight to do development work on it. I haven't a clue what it was we were developing, but it never sold.

When I first used a computer (some form of Altair) I had an epiphany: I suddenly knew what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

But the feeling I had when I saw the Lisa completely overwhelmed that. I couldn't believe such an immense leap from the command line to the intuitive Lisa interface was possible. It was, without doubt, the way the world was headed.





This was "Richard Cranium's Tulipe Conclusions". Number 7 in a series of 136.

From a development point of view it was a major transition from a "Just do it" to a "Please do it" methodology.

Oh those halcyon days...
(Whadya mean I've got to post a message...?)