Re: Early-2014 Macbook Air and Linux Mint Cinnamon

On Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:42:20 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> Too bad.  I liked the Intel mnemonics better; they gave a clue as to the
> operation of the instruction, which appealed to low-level dweebs like
> me. I'm sure the CS weenies liked Zilog's mnemonics better, where every
> data movement instruction seemed to be some form of LD.  I figured that
> if they were going to do that, they might as well go whole hog and have
> constructs like LD PC,<addr> for a jump, and LD A,@<portnum> for input
> (LD @<portnum>,A for output, of course).  Then they could eliminate the
> now-redundant instruction mnemonic entirely; programs would be just a
> long list of operands, with the operation implied.

Digging a little deeper...

http://www.gaby.de/cpm/manuals/archive/cpm22htm/ch3.htm#Section_3.5.1

I'm not sure if I ever had a real live 8080 but the CP/M assembler stuck 
used the Intel set. I was pretty set in my ways when I ran into AT&T 
syntax.