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
>
>



-- 
Federico G. Benavento

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