I didn't give up on BASIC in the 1980s. Nothing wrong with BASIC per se. Back then I wrote an assembler in BASIC for this processor http://www.cpushack.com/tag/

I didn't give up on BASIC in the 1980s. Nothing wrong with BASIC per se. Back then I wrote an assembler in BASIC for this processor http://www.cpushack.com/tag/8x305/ http://www.cpushack.com/tag/8x305/ We were imbedding an 8X305 in a communications adapter and needed to extend it with some special instructions.