CompuServe Messages

One very nice feature of "C" the portable assmebler (sounds like a movie) is portability. But the problem is that you have to make sure and write portable code. Lots of different ways to do things with the micros out there. At one time we used a language called M O L that was basicly a assembler with different syntax. For example in INTEL speak you might say MOV AX,BX which seems (to me) to be backward. So in MOL it was BX:AX Which I thought made more sence. MOL was also kinda (sorta) neat in that you could take a program written in 8080 and compile it with 8086 templetes and get 8086 OBJECT. It was a little ahead and a lot too wierd for its time. You know I firmly believe that lots of Assembly haters would like it better if they learned it on a simple machine. I myself came around after being forced to write an interrupt routine for the 6502. Now that is a nice understandable micro. Imagine starting off with a beast like the 8086! I had to use it for a while and grew to like the 68K line. A nice thought out cpu in comparison to the Kludge bag Intel line of rewarmed junk!