16 Apr
2006
16 Apr
'06
2:01 p.m.
> Do you want to rephrase that? I do recall a
simple assembler that did not
> implement alpha constant strings longer than 2 bytes (as a DW). To code a
> long string you had to do something like this:
>
> DW "EH"
> DW "LL"
> DW " O"
> DW "OW"
> DW "LR"
> DW " D"
I seem to rememebr the cassette-based editor/assembler I had for the
TRS-80 Model 1 was like that. I am not even sure it supported ASCII
characters as constants, you may have had to enter everything in Hex
>
> Very tedious!
[...]
More like:
JMP
DW THERE
THERE
; rest of code
I think (although I don't have it), the assembler for the Philips P850
was like that (you had to put the second word of 2-word instructions as a
constant). The assemblers for the other P800 series machines (which had a
lot more memory) did it more as you'd expect.
-tony