I'm not sure which is scarier. The fact that you actually MADE that comparison, or the fact that I understood it completely.
-Mat On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:16:36 -0500 (EST), D. Glenn Arthur Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Y'know, in some ways the user interface of the Super Program > reminds me of learning VAX assembly language. "Wouldn't it be > nifty if I could combine this addressing mode with ... oh wait, > I can, and it does exactly what it ought to. Huh. What kind of > weird-ass CPU is this that I don't have to memorize a bunch of > "you can't do that to this register" rules?" And finding out > how flash compensation works on the Super Program reminds me of > looking at the hexadecimal machine code on the VAX and realizing > that the "immediate" addressing mode was implemented in the > hardware as "auto-increment indirect using the program counter".
