John VanSickle wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> 
>> I just wrote the assembly on a piece of paper, and when the program 
>> was properly finished, it'd do the "assembling" part by hand. (I.e., 
>> open my dad's book and leaf through the op-code table.)
> 
> Hand assembly was actually a common practice until 16-bit processors 
> made this too troublesome;

Actually, it was pretty common before, too. Lots of machines designed to 
be programmed in assembler had opcodes organized in a way that made it 
easy to remember them and how to code them. If nothing else, it made 
debugging via memory dumps easier. (You wonder why C supports octal?)

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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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