Pick assembly, was Re: XT 5160

[Cameron Kaiser]

> Cameron wrote...
> > I've always wanted to see what Pick assembly looked like. Is there a 
> > reference anywhere?
> 
> I could pull up some of my old code for you if you want. Pick Assembler is 
> quite difficult. Not because of the instruction set (although the 
> instruction set is only 1/2 the issue), but because there was no protection 
> among modes, and all the conventions were completely undocumented.

Sounds deliciously challenging. Gimme. :)

(Seriously, yes, I would be interested in some of your examples, mostly just
to get a feel for what it could do internally. I had a Pick PC at one stage
but it suffered a hard disk crash and we weren't able to recover it, since
we were just fooling around with it -- something that came in a lot with
other stuff we were playing with. I'd been curious about it ever since.)

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