8-bit C, was Re: Anybody ever use Aztec C for APPLEII?

On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 00:54, Ethan Dicks wrote: The 6809, in my opinion, was the prettiest instruction set of any of the 8bit+ processors. It had two 16-bit index regs, A, B, good addressing modes, post/pre inc/decrement, stack frame pointers or something? blah blah blah. It's like it was designed for assembly programmers like me who grew up on the classic mini-era machines. Too bad for me, I never got to use it. Both, I think, but also software, author and industry maturity. I used Leor Zolman's BDS C on the 8080/8085/Z80 for years, and I used a custom printf() up through the 90's that I derived from Leor's code! BDS was a fantastic software package. We evaluated Whitesmith's C and BDS; whitesmith was far more correct, but: expensive, very slow and cumbersome (3 - 6 passes?!), very closed, snotty and difficult to deal with them. BDS was cheap, friendly, hackable, modest, too-small libraries, incompatible, and you could write real code, extend the libraries easily (I added standard unix type read(), open() write() etc instead of the default FCB type junk!) in either BDS C or M80. And you could call him on the phone!! I woke him up once, how's that for accessibility? I heard that he was a law student and BDS C paid for part of his expenses... BDS == Brain Dead Software. I do miss those days. tomj D'OH! :-)