PET peve thing... Editors

[Warner Losh]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 10:05 PM Sean Conner via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org
wrote:

> It was thus said that the Great allison via cctalk once stated:
> > On 12/12/2018 03:04 PM, Sean Conner via cctalk wrote:
> > > It was thus said that the Great allison via cctalk once stated:
> > >> The whole thing comes from a project for myself...
> > >> I wanted a very basic screen based editor written in 8080/8085/z80 asm
> > >> and compact
> > >> (as in under 4K).  I figured first lets inquire of the Internet to see
> > >> if I need to and code exists...
> > >   I remember typing in TED.ASM from one of the PC magazines in the
> late 80s.
> > > Yes, it's for MS-DOS, but:
> > >
> > >     1) The 8086 is somewhat, kind of, source compatible with the
> > >     8080/Z80 (if you squint hard enough)
> >
> > Your not serious?  Z80 or 8080 to 8086 is not too bad but the other way
> > is plain nuts.
>
>   I learned assembly on the 6809, then the 8086 (technically the 8088).
> I've
> always heard that it was designed to make porting code from the 8080/Z80
> easy.
>

The 8080 mnemonics were partially mechanically translatable. Easy is an
overstatement, but many of the oddballs were there to help. But the
registers had different names. So more like not too terrible...

Warner

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