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Re: //+ Video question
- Subject: Re: //+ Video question
- From: guertinp@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Paul Guertin)
- Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 01:05:57 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Universite de Montreal, Canada
- References: <350p48$rjd@elaine.teleport.com> <3511ra$frd@gap.cco.caltech.edu> <353hht$26t@elaine.teleport.com>
- Sender: news@IRO.UMontreal.CA
In article <353hht$26t@elaine.teleport.com> gerome@teleport.com (Gerome Manufacturing) writes:
>
>I really enjoy working in assembly with the early 8-bit
>cpu's. The best so far for me has been the 6809. Very powerful and logical
>instruction set.
I agree! The 6809 is a lot of fun to program. If the Radio Shack
CoCo computers had had a system monitor, I would probably be
reading bit.listserv.coco and comp.sys.m6809 instead of csa2
today.
It still blows my mind that, of all the popular 8-bit computers of
the late 70s / early 80s, the Apple II was (to my knowledge) the
only one with a built-in monitor, disassembler, and mini-assembler.
In my opinion, the monitor is one of the most valuable assets of
the Apple II. Thanks Woz!
Paul Guertin
guertinp@iro.umontreal.ca