28 Jan
2008
28 Jan
'08
3:35 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
Hm... Yeah, I guess that was a hassle. 808x you have to:
MOV AX,immed
MOV ES,AX
or
PUSH DS
POP ES
...etc. Still, two instructions vs. one isn't that big a deal; I got
used to it.
I guess the one annoying thing with 808x is that, 80286 and later, they
removed POP CS. So if you used that for tricks, it immediately dies on
anything other than an 808x.
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> Can we
just shoot the designers of the 8086 and just leave it that. !?
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Jim Leonard wrote:
But seriously -- why? I didn't find it all
that horrible -- in fact, I
missed the string handling (REP MOVSW/STOSW/SCASW/etc.) on all the other
platforms I mentioned. If they truly deserve to be shot, I want to know
why :-)
Some people get rather upset at the lack of symmetry, and lack of certain
instructions that might be handy, such as a load immediate into segment
registers.