28 Jan
2008
28 Jan
'08
4:35 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Jim Leonard once stated:
Me? I didn't find it all that odd (at least, once I realized it was
better to look at the opcode map in octal instead of hex), but I do recall
reading various rants against the x86 on USENET in the early to mid 90s. I
did *a lot* of 8086 programming in the late 80s/early 90s, and still like
revisiting it from time to time (well, assembly in general, not specifically
the 8086).
-spc (Man, I think I'd prefer the 6502 over the Z80 any day, and I hate
the 6502 ... )
> I find it
amazing that there's an instruction set even more annoying
> than
>the 8086 (segments and all). I was amazed at the lopsidedness of the
>instruction set. I'm beginning to think I was lucky in skipping this
>particular chip (my first 8-bit was the 6809, so I think I got spoiled).
Other than the goofy segment layout, what did you find "annoying" about
the 8086 instruction set?