10 Dec
2008
10 Dec
'08
2:55 p.m.
On 10 Dec 2008 at 15:26, bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca wrote:
But when you think of it, most develpment on the small
8 bit micros
were done by hand ... ie Apple integer basic or cross compiled on a larger
machine PDP-10? under Fortran IV. PL/M for the 8080 comes to mind.
Actually, most early CPUs (including Intel) had available cross-
assemblers written in (gasp!) FORTRAN--being one of the more portable
languages of the time. Since one couldn't assume ASCII (nor even 8-
bit characters), one of the first statements tended to be one to read
in the character set of the machine in A1 format.
Cheers,
Chuck