8080 Assembler-Text Editor (ATE)

My take on the hex-vs-octal 8080/Z80 debate: My gosh, it doesn't take a mental giant to subdivide an 8 bit quantity into either octal or hexadecimal! Hex is attractive for 8 bits in that there's no "hole" to deal with in 16/24/32... bit quantities (although that can be accomodated with application of a bit of grey matter). Another reason I like hex for 8 bits is because I can output a line of 16 bytes in a dump format, complete with address and alpha translation on a single 80-character line. Heaven knows why ZSID went to a two-line format to do that. But if all you've got is octal, no problem, I can deal with that, too. Or decimal, for that matter. If you think that hex-vs-octal is hard mental work, try transposing musical notation on the fly... Cheers, Chuck