8085 Dissasembly?

On Tue, 17 Apr 2018, allison via cctalk wrote: In the days of assembly language and hand edited machine code, An 8080 with a bag on the side made it extremely quick and easy to port legacy (8080) code. An 80286 can run almost all 8086 code without further modifications. Each generation of the intel processors was easy to adopt with legacy code. LATER, the code can be rewritten to take advantage of new "features". The alternative, to start from scratch and design it correctly, means that instead of porting legacy code, everything needs to be written from scratch. For example, in the 68000, you have a processor that is NOT hampered by being a 6800/6809 with a bag on the side. And it took a while before commercial applications were ready. Consider spreadsheets on the Mac. Good ones became available, but it took a while. OTOH, Micropro had 8080 originated Wordstar running on the 5150 in weeks. It took them longer to edit the manuals than to port the code. Likewise Supercalc, etc. There are trade-offs between redesign with integrated features to do it right, VS add-on kludge bags to have maximum compatability. These days, with most stuff written in compiled high-level languages, it becomes "merely" developing the new compiler. 'course the result of compiled high-level language is not comparable to assembly/machine coding. It requires "Moore's Law" to compensate for the slower final result. -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com