[Coco] cc6809 project

[jdaggett at gate.net]

John

Now I am really going to tell my age. 

My first experience in writing assembly code was on the Intel 8008. 
There was a group of us in Tech school that decided as a project to 
make an 8008 SBC and write some code for it. 

james


On 23 Mar 2005 at 11:01, John Donaldson wrote:

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>   My very first embedded project was in assembly. It was a old 8085
> system and I did all the coding in assembly. Did not have a
> Editor/Assembler, so I hand assembled the code. ended up getting a
> joint Nasa/Industry Patient too. Still have the manual I wrote for it
> too. Second project was done on a 6800.
> 
> John Donaldson
> 
> 
> jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
> 
> >James
> >
> >I learned assembly on small micro processors long before any high
> >level language came into existance for them. SO I am partial to
> >assembly and developed a sense of what the hardware internally needs
> >to do so that the hardware externally needs to do.
> >
> >I am not knocking languages like C, Fortran or others. I personally
> >prefer assembly, then basic, then Fortran. 
> >
> >Reading C code to me is like reading a bad poem from ee 
> >cummings. 
> >
> >james
> >
> >
> >
> >On 23 Mar 2005 at 9:55, James Dessart wrote:
> >
> >Date sent:      	Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:55:24 -0500 (EST)
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> >>On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Now I get it. Since many new programmers never learned assembly and
> >>>only know C, they are trying to make assembly look and feel more
> >>>llike C.
> >>>
> >>>good greif. Gone are the good old days of assembly.
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>For some arbitrary meaning of "good," I imagine. :)
> >>
> >>I know assembly, I can write in it and read it. However, I don't use
> >>it enough to want to have to deal with archaic syntax when I do want
> >>to use it.
> >>
> >>James
> >>
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