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Re: Merlin source code
On Feb 23, 10:28 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> aiiad...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Feb 22, 11:02 am, a2avia...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> >>Which brings forth the chicken or the egg syndrome..
>
> >>.. Merlin, originally written with T.E.D. II ..
>
> >>Although it really is, "originally written by hand and saved"
>
> > what was t.e.d. II written in? :-)
>
> Every assembler is bootstrapped either by hand or with an
> existing assembler. I'm sure that by "1.0" Merlin was fully
> self-assembling.
For some reason the idea of assembling Merlin with itself is something
I'm looking forward to. But that's because it's Merlin, not just the
concept in general, if that makes any sense at all ;-)
Matt