didn't russ write a 8086 assembler? On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 3:17 PM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: >> Never :-) >> >> I still like the current approach because it works but at the same >> time discourages people from using it :-) > > i'm sorry, but that's fairly silly. > should we also get rid of the > assembler because we want to > discourage its use? and clearly > we have successfully minimized > the amount of asm while having > an assembler,. > > the amount of 16 bit code that > currently exists would easily justify > the effort in writing a proper assembler. > > and consider, interfacing with undi > and other annoying tasks would be a > heck of a lot easier with a proper 4a. > > - erik > >
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