Imlac assembler almost ready...

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc_at_conman.org>
Date: Mon Sep 16 14:23:00 2002

It was thus said that the Great Patrick Finnegan once stated:
>
> On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Jeffrey Sharp wrote:
>
> > On Friday, September 13, 2002, Bob Shannon wrote:
> >
> > > A Windows machine would be the most practical host.
> >
> > I suggest you make it platform-independent (e.g. Java).
>
> Personally, I would say if you don't want to use Java, at least write it
> so it's posix compliant, maybe so it'll compile just fine on *nix, and
> using cygwin if necessary on windows.

  It's possible to write an assembler using ANSI-C with the Standard C
library. I have an Amiga assembler (68000) written in ANSI-C and I've had
no problems compiling it for use under the Amiga itself, MS-DOS or numerous
versions of Unix.

  -spc (Portable code is *good* 8-)
Received on Mon Sep 16 2002 - 14:23:00 BST