On 9/23/2015 1:45 PM, m...@markesystems.com wrote: >> There were plenty of assemblers around, some even native. Heck, I wrote >> both an 8008 and an 8080 cross-assembler (in FORTRAN, naturally). It's >> not rocket science. One friend of mine wrote his assembler as macros >> for a mainframe assembler. That, at once, gave him all of the advanced >> facilities of the host assembler. Wish I'd thought of that... > > So, I wrote my primitive little 8080 assembler, in Fortran-77. I > started using it the next day, and my manager asked where I got it. > After I told him, he said that I should have asked him first, because he > could have put together one using editor macros pretty easily - in less > than a week, he estimated. The fact that I knew nothing about macros > notwithstanding, I noticed I thereafter got a lot more autonomy when I > told him I wrote mine in a single (longish) day... > ~~ > Mark Moulding >
Good boss.... JRJ
