From: notsaying@nospicedham.127.0.0.1   
      
   On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 02:54:35 GMT, "Rick C. Hodgin"   
    wrote:   
      
   > On 8/23/20 5:19 PM, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:   
   >> On 8/23/20 3:48 PM, Kerr-Mudd,John wrote:   
   >>> Anyone want to try the long version? ('Monday' 'Tuesday' etc?)   
   >>   
   []   
   >   
   > I had an idea this evening to remove all those extra $ symbols.   
   > Here's a version that uses CAPS characters as a delineator.  It's   
   > 40 code bytes, 34 data bytes, 74 total.   
   >   
      
   Yup, that's how I do it in one of my 67 byte programs.   
      
      
   >      matrix_days BYTE "SunMonTuesWednesThursFriSaturZ"   
   >      day BYTE "day$"   
   >   
   >      test3_ PROC PUBLIC   
   >          mov     ah,2ah   
   >          int     21h   
   >          mov     bx,offset matrix_days   
   >      top_loop:   
   >          cmp     byte ptr [bx],'Z'   
   >          ja      move_next   
   >          cmp     al,0   
   >          jz      found_it   
   >          dec     al   
   >      move_next:   
   >          inc     bx   
   >          jmp     top_loop   
   >   
   >      found_it:   
   >          mov     ah,2   
   >      show_next_char:   
   >          mov     dl,byte ptr [bx]   
   >          int     21h   
   >          inc     bx   
   >          cmp     byte ptr [bx],'Z'   
   >          ja      show_next_char   
   >   
   >          mov     ah,9   
   >          mov     dx,offset day   
   >          int     21h   
   >          ret   
   >      test3_ ENDP   
   >   
   > It's been a long time since I've programmed in 8086 assembly.  Usually   
   > it's in 686 or later.  These little small asm code challenges take me   
   > back to the man who taught me MASM 1.0.  Alan Earheart.  A quadriplegic   
   > who damaged his spine falling off a roof.  He typed with a 30 inch   
   stick   
   > in his teeth touching a keyboard mounted on a special fixture holding   
   > also the RGB monitor where he could see it, and the keyboard where he   
   > could access it.  We chatted over 300 baud modems and I learned how to   
   > do assembly that way.  I was introduced to him by an employer I had in   
   > 1987.  That employer saw a spark in me, and sent me to Alan to learn   
   > low-level coding, which I had no experience in before that save PEEKs   
   > and POKEs on my 6502-based BASIC apps.   
   >   
   > Alan died a few years later, but he left a legacy with me.  Were it not   
   > for his tutilege, I may never have had such a passion for low-level asm   
   > code, ISAs or hardware in general.  I've remembered Alan multiple times   
   > over the years.  Always a dual set of emotions there.   
   >   
   > It's been almost 20 years since I've written extensively in assembly.   
   > Now it's mostly nostalgia, and a requirement for compiler development,   
   > but most of that is a reasoned application considering various models,   
   > and not a real coding goal as for a task, but only a particular need of   
   > processing data types in particular ways.   
   >   
   > I'm thankful for CLAX and other low-level software and hardware groups.   
   >   
      
   Fun still, for us few.   
      
      
   --   
   Bah, and indeed, Humbug.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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