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Date: Thu,  8 Apr 2010 15:28:41 -0300
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From: "Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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didn't russ write a 8086 assembler?

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 3:17 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrot=
e:
>> Never :-)
>>
>> I still like the current approach because it works but at the same
>> time discourages people from using it :-)
>
> i'm sorry, but that's fairly silly.
> should we also get rid of the
> assembler because we want to
> discourage its use? =C2=A0and clearly
> we have successfully minimized
> the amount of asm while having
> an assembler,.
>
> the amount of 16 bit code that
> currently exists would easily justify
> the effort in writing a proper assembler.
>
> and consider, interfacing with undi
> and other annoying tasks would be a
> heck of a lot easier with a proper 4a.
>
> - erik
>
>



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