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From: nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Liber)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.forth,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Assembly or ....
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Date: 6 Dec 88 00:14:37 GMT
References: <1388@aucs.UUCP> <729@convex.UUCP> <1961@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <1432@zen.co.uk>
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In article <1432@zen.co.uk> frank@zen.co.uk (Frank Wales) writes:

>Suppose you don't have a compiler.  Or an assembler.  Suppose you're writing
>these for a brand new processor -- what do you write them in?

I would write a cross-assembler (probably table-driven if I had to do
this sort of thing a lot) and an emulator on another machine.  If I
waited for the actual hardware to come out before I did any of my
software, I'd probably be out of business. :-)
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