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Re: Intel 8080 Emulator
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 10:37 am
by djes
Excellent !
Re: Intel 8080 Emulator
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 10:59 am
by Keya
Very interesting!!
I was wondering what the assembly language looked like, this is from Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8080
How many lines of 8bit 8086 would it require to accomplish x64's "add rax, rbx"?
i find it amazing what programmers accomplish within the confines of an 8-bit system. Just trying to think now if i could only use al, bl, cl and dl ... awkward!
Re: Intel 8080 Emulator
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 2:42 pm
by djes
Imagine my surprise when, as a teenager coming from an Intel 8086 PC system, I discovered the world of Motorola 68000 processors. I discovered that in the industry, the best product is rarely the best seller, and that I had been fooled ; that simpler generally means faster, and low cost ; that in engineering, there's a lot of ways to resolve the same problems ; that some minds are just too different from mine, and that I'd have to live with. It was and it's still difficult. Anyway...
Re: Intel 8080 Emulator
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 3:58 pm
by Booger
My favorite was the 6809 which I recall the 68000 may have been based off of...I never got to do assembly on the 68000 though...but yes Motorola made nice processors for sure