3 Aug
2011
3 Aug
'11
2:46 p.m.
On 3 Aug 2011 at 16:11, Dave McGuire wrote:
I haven't actually benchmarked it, but
side-by-side my 4MHz
Z80-based S100 system spanked my 8MHz 8088-based PC clone back in the
day. Installing a NEC V20 mostly evened it out.
A lot of early PC software was written rather inefficiently. I
recall that MASM 1.0 was very slow. Needed 64K without macros and
96K with. Ugly, buggy as heck.
I mostly cross-assembled in the early days. It was easier than
trying to use the native MS-DOS program.
--Chuck