5 Feb
1999
5 Feb
'99
7:05 p.m.
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Andrew Davie wrote:
In the games machines world, I cringe when people call
computer
cartridges "tapes". This comes, I think, from the era when carts (eg:
Exidy Sorcerer) came in modified 8-track tape boxes. Anybody care to
discuss the history of the usage of "cartridge/tape"?
Screw that. Anyone want to jump on the bandwagon of my campaign to
introduce "carthridge" as the proper spelling for "cartridge" and make
the
latter an alternate (or better yet obsolete) spelling of the word?
No reason, other than "carthridge" sounds better.
Another one... when people say they're
"machine code programmers"... they
really mean they're "assembly language programmers". Front-panel users
excluded, there are very very few machine code programmers out there still
keying/toggling in 1s and 0s :)
What about hexadecimal? I never coded anything in "assembler". I always
just plugged hex bytes into memory addresses through the Apple ][ monitor.
I never met an assembler I liked. Of course it sucked when you wanted to
insert bytes, but I got by thanks to the memory move feature in the
monitor.
I still remember all my machine code too. Try this on your Apple ][:
]CALL -151
*300: A0 00 B9 10 03 F0 07 20 ED FD C8 4C 02 03 60
*310: C8 C5 CC CC CF A0 C3 CC C1 D3 D3 C9 C3 C3 CD D0 A0 C4 CF CF C4 D3 00
*300G
Off the top of my head. DAMN, I'M GOOD!
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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