[Coco] 6809 example

[Roger Taylor]

At 02:50 AM 1/23/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>On Saturday 17 January 2004 12:03 am, Roger Taylor wrote:
> > The first ML program I ever typed in and saw run was, in fact, the
> > bubble sort example from William Barden's 6809 Assembly Language
> > Programming book.  It's on page 2 and is the first example given.  I
> > immediately saw how fast machine-language was.  Ofcourse, the same
> > code ran on a modern computer would sort 512 bytes quicker than you
> > could hit the ENTER key.  Barden's 6809 example lets you actually see
> > the characters "float" upwards for as long as it takes to sort all
> > the characters on the 32x16 screen.  Seeing a ML example run like
> > this is important, so I agree that this would be a good thing for a
> > starter to enter and try.
>
>It can't do it faster than you hit the ENTER key, since it can't start
>until you do that.  Of course it might _finish_ before the ENTER key
>gets back to the full upright position.

Yea, I meant to say, "as soon as you hit the ENTER key"

Anyway, it's fast!  :)



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Roger Taylor