Dwight wrote:
When ever I see MDS, the first thing I think of is
the Intel
development systems. I realize these are not them but it always
catches my eye.
A lot of Intel literature from the 80s had a disclaimer in fine print
about how MDS was *not* an Intel trademark, it was just an "ordering
code" or some such.
Of course, a lot of Intel literature from the 70s and 80s also claimed
that the instruction mnemonics for the 8080, 8085, 8086/8, etc. were
copyrighted. While I don't think they could have prevailed on that, it
may be a contributing factor to why Zilog invented an entirely different
set of mnemonics. (I always thought the Zilog ones made more sense
anyhow, e.g., "LD" for all instructions that load a register.)
Eric