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I did valuable work on a 2 MHz Apple II with a 4 MHz Z80 add-on running CP/M that I used to write the documentation. The documentation part was just as fast fo
by kwhitefoot 2y ago
I did valuable work on a 2 MHz Apple II with a 4 MHz Z80 add-on running CP/M that I used to write the documentation. The documentation part was just as fast forty years ago as it is now but assembling the code was glacially slow. The 6502 macro assembler running on the Apple too forty minutes to assemble code that filled an 8 k EPROM.
- musicale 2y ago6502 assemblers are amazingly fast on more recent hardware. Something like 60-70ms to run a script to assemble and link an a version of msbasic (AppleSoft) on my old laptop. https://github.com/mist64/msbasic https://github.com/mist64/msbasic
- musicale 2y agoI usually only notice typos after hn has disabled editing... ;-(