[HN Gopher] Cap-X and COMP-X: how the Tandy Pocket Computers got...
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       Cap-X and COMP-X: how the Tandy Pocket Computers got a sucky
       Japanese assembler
        
       Author : zdw
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2024-02-11 16:28 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
        
       | jhbadger wrote:
       | It would have been fun if a "fake" assembly language had to be
       | used (rather than one corresponding to the actual CPU) that MIX
       | from Knuth's books would have been used (yes, current versions of
       | the books use an updated version called MMIX, but plain MIX would
       | have been contemporary for these pocket computers).
        
       | WillAdams wrote:
       | Beats only having BASIC as my PC-1 was limited to.
        
       | layer8 wrote:
       | I was hoping for katakana opcodes.
        
       | fmajid wrote:
       | I had the Casio fx-780P. It was a piece of junk, even by the
       | standards of the day.
        
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