[Coco] 6809 example

[Ward Griffiths]

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.
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