Programming with Assembly or Hex.

[LochnarITB]

There's nothing like assembly, especially one for a CPU with an incredibly small operation set, to test your problem solving skills. It was an interesting time figuring out how to perform equalivance operations with a chip that did not have such instructions while programming assembly seriously for the first time.  :lol:

While I didn't do a lot of assembly programming, my first exposure to it was in systems programming in college back in *mumble* *mumble*. We worked on a reduced instruction set simulator of a PDP-11 and on Terak mini-computers. I agree about small instructions sets. You get much more of a "down to the metal" programming experience that way. I am somewhat baffled though about your reference to a chip without equivalence operations. I assume you are refering to no "higher level" equivalence operators. After all, even something like a branch on true is a rudimentary equivalence and that combined with an addition instruction makes equivalence trivial. What chip were you working on? I would love to explore a little bit and see what I can find on it.

Also, for anyone working in windows that wants to program in assembly, you might want to check here.