Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:11:42 -0800 (PST)
From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>
Subject: Re: Z80 Divide by 10
>> 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.
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And some people just get rather upset by _anything_ that doesn't match their
view of how the world "should" be...
m