On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:32:40 -0400, John W Kennedy
<jwkenne@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who
said :
>Heck, if you want to go with antiques, go to bitsavers.org and get the
>manuals for the old IBM 1401. Easiest machine language / assembler
>languages ever made, and there are emulators available.
One of the easiest assemblers I ever programmed with the 68000 used in
the early Macs. Intel has all kinds of asymmetry and magic registers
with special properties. You not only have the machine to understand
but dozens of pseudo-ops to deal with the addressing. I don't know how
compiler writers ever generate code for them.
You might pick up an old Mac free, and find the software to let you
play.
For just learning, some of the simulators used at universities to
teach assembler might be available. They typically have some
unrealistic but very useful instructions to make life easy for the
novice.
PDP 11 assembler is very straight forward. C is almost an assembler
for it.
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