Sources for 8b TTL keyboards (Keytronics)

On 7 Dec 2008 at 13:06, Alexandre Souza wrote: That's precisely what I call lame. An assembler with clumsy syntax that forces one to define constants as: .EQU Name = Value Terrible macro facilities. No strong typing or ways to form local variables. One can't even access the name of the label field in a macro invocation. I could compile a long list of deficiencies. There were far better assemblers in the 1960s, running on far more limited hardware. Perhaps the people who wrote the AVR assembler never had to code much in assembly. One might have argued in the beginning that these were only microcontrollers capable of running only a very small program, so what did it matter. But that's no longer true, which only demonstrates the limited vision of whoever wrote the development toolkit. I care less about an IDE than I do about the tools which comprise it. Give me an assembler which has at least the capabilities of, say, MASM 5.0 or S/360 assembler and I won't feel that I'm too limited by the tools. Of course, since AVR has an "official" assembler, improvments on the syntax and features are considered to be "nonstandard". So we code with a hood tied over our heads and curse the darkness. I know the standard answer--I've seen it on the AVR forums--use C. I think that's a cop-out. I can write C just fine, but I enjoy writing a well-crafted piece of assembly. Giving me a rusty screwdriver and a dull hatchet as a toolkit is shameful. Cheers, Chuck