Re: PL/MIX

ArarghMail702@Arargh.com writes:


> On 11 Feb 2007 16:24:42 -0500, Allan Adler <ara@nestle.csail.mit.edu> wrote:
> >Allan Adler <ara@nestle.csail.mit.edu> writes:
> >Since posting this, I found a pdf version of the manual. Also, I found
> >a commercial program, selling for about $50+S&H that is advertised as
> >an algebraic assembly language program for x86.


> There is also terse at http://www.terse.com/ but I never really looked
> at it.


That's what I was referring to.


> Right now, I'm
> >downloading a free package called HLA (High Level Assembler) that runs
> >under both Windows and Linux. It is compiled but the distributors
> >claim that doesn't mean it isn't really still a high level assembly
> >language.
> Randy Hyde's ?


Yes.


> >As a side effect of learning to use
> >HLA, I might actually learn something about x86 machine language,
> >which I've wanted for some time to learn but have always found too
> >painful to spend much time on.
>
> If you bypass the more obscure addressing forms (espically for a
> 386+), to me, x86 assembler isn't all that different than sys360.
> (asumming that addressing is setup for both)
> 360 x86
> l r1,data mov eax,data
> st r1,data mov data,eax
[snip]


Thanks for the comparisons.
--
Ignorantly,
Allan Adler <ara@zurich.csail.mit.edu>

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