Re: Need Book Title, Author

[Charlie Springer <RAM@regnirps.com>]

On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:21:14 -0800, Roger Johnstone wrote
(in article <20061224202109905+1300@News.Individual.NET>):

> My high school's library had a collection of Byte magazines going back 
> to the late '70s. The older issues were full of interesting articles, 
> including some cool hardware and software hacks for the Apple II and 
> other 8-bit computers. This lasted until the early 1980s, but by about 
> 1985 Byte had become a boring PC-business-clone monoculture.

I auctioned off Byte 1 vol 1 a couple years ago and sold the rest. I recall 
the rare Apple related article, but I looked through them before I sold and 
most of the stuff was S100, Klugeharp, 8008, 8080, 6800 (Mitts, the first MS 
BASIC interpreter). All the early heavy lifting was by Carl Helmers and he 
just wasn't a single address guy (people call it load/store these days for 
some reason). The two address folks could not seem to grasp the simplicity of 
the single address architectures. They needed a MOV instruction or they were 
stuck. They also seemed a bit perplexed by memory mapped I/O and felt better 
with separate I/O instructions.

They were very excited by the truly goofy Z80 when it came out.

6502 programmers migrated to RISC much easier than Intel users.

-- Charlie Springer