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TRS-80 Color Computer? That's what I learned 6809 assembly on around 1981, only to be startled how many little things were harder on the Commodore 64's 6502. Th
by prodigal_erik 15y ago
TRS-80 Color Computer? That's what I learned 6809 assembly on around 1981, only to be startled how many little things were harder on the Commodore 64's 6502. The extra memory (64k after bank switching!) made up for it though.
I didn't have a multiprocessing platform until 1988 (4.3BSD at college). I wonder how much better I'd be now if I could have gotten my hands on OS-9 earlier.
- waterlesscloud 15y agoYep! Good ol CoCo. I didn't have edasm+ at first, so I was "hand assembling" to bytecodes. Had a little too much spare time as a kid. My dad helped me double the ram by piggybacking chips on the existing ones. I used to take the cover off and stare at motherboard along with printed schematics to understand how the thing worked. I think it's a lot harder for kids to get the kind of basis for things now.