OT: Humor

[bill perkins]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> bill perkins wrote:
>   
>> Yup, I ran HDOS- it wasn't bad, and the source was available; I bought
>> the books when they were discontinuing them. HDOS was written for the
>> 8080, though, not a Z80 instruction in sight! I added a patch to map
>> some reserved space to RAM, wound up with 56K RAM and 8K ROM thereby,
>> and another patch to allow the modem to tie in directly to the terminal,
>> so I could access the system from work. I got to show my boss what an
>> actual assembler could do, as opposed to typing hex codes into an EPROM
>> burner. My boss went to up to the Pres's office and snagged the only PC
>> in the building, bought a cross assembler for Z80, and the rest (for me)
>> was history.
>>
>>     
> What is really interesting is that there is software for both DOS
> and Linux that will let you run CP/M on a PC. So you can run the
> native 8080 and Z80 assemblers and dis-assemblers under CP/M. There
> was even a version that took advantage of the NEC 8086/8088
> replacement CPU's that would also do 8080 instruction sets.
>
> Mikkel
>   
I remember the NEC processors- they also had a Z80 instruction-set 
version. I was intrigued, but never did manage to play on them. I should 
look into the CP/M emulator; being a long-time assembly-language hacker, 
it would be nice to relive the simplicity :)

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