> Then there's what Xiaofan wrote: Olin doesn't program in (pure) 
> assembler,
> he programs in ASPIC. Which is probably as difficult to learn as C 
> (and for
> me and many others it would be much more difficult to learn).

Real men write in pure machine code :-)
By that definition I stopped being a real man long ago - I'm pleased 
to say.
After that almost anything else is easier :-).
The MC6800 was especially well suited to it as it grouped it's bit 
fields in a very consistent manner. Many processors scatter the bits 
for various fields in various locations and even in "incorrect" orders 
within the program words making hand compilation and code reading far 
far harder.


        Russell


Some things burn in (variably accurately) forever:

86 44        (1000 0110 0100 0100) **
B7 4044   ( ...
B6 4088
26 03
CE 2956
...


**  206 104 ......... aaaaagh!!! No.


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