[Gllug] Re: Dual core AMDs

[Robert Newson]

John Winters wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 23:21 +0100, Robert Newson wrote:
> [snip]
> 
>>I learnt assembler on a 6502 (on a CBM Pet); and then progressed to 
>>reading/writing in MC in Hex (as the Pet only had a MC monitor that only 
>>poked around with bytes).  I never did like the Z80 and found the M68K easy 
>>to learn.  Babbage for a GEC 4000 series processor was an interesting high 
>>level assembler (never got the time to learn the proper assembler).
>>
> 
> The GEC 4000 series didn't have a supported language lower than Babbage.
> Although SAL (Simple Assembly Language) existed it was never a product

Propably to what I was referring - the assembler output optionally generated 
by the babbage compiler containing things like:

   LDZ 5
   STX 8

etc - always felt slightly at home with the 6502 style mnemonics I could 
recognise.


> and it wasn't really needed because you could get as low level as you
> liked using Babbage.  If all else failed you could slot in instructions.
> Hands up if you know what:
> 
> 	EXECUTE '1201';
> 
> does.  (I may not have got the syntax quite right there.)

nope. no idea...only got to play with the GEC4000 series at Uni, and they 
were decomissioned ~15 years ago (replaced temporarily by a Pyramid 
(borrowed from the CS dept, sitting in the old printer room whilst the 
computer centre was rebuilt to house) then an IBM RS6000 (which always 
seemed slower than the Pyramid, but could have just been my impression); now 
no idea what's used there).

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