1.) ASM-One = ASM-One was originaly made by Rune-Gram Madsen (better known in the sceneas Promax). He programmed ASM-One in 700 hours during a 4 month period.Before writing ASM-One Rune made some improvements to a resourced versionof Seka. He, however, had much more ideas for improvements than hecould fit into the ugly resourced version of Seka. He therefore startedcoding ASM-One from scratch.Rune made a deal with DMV Verlag (a German company) to sell ASM-One as acommercial program. Unfortunally this didn't turned out the way hehad expected. The guy that signed the contract left the company 2 months laterand Rune had to threaten them with lawers and such to get DMV to dothings they had promised to do (like advertising).All in all, ASM-One sold about 500 copies. Rune bought his first PC forthe money he earned, finished his studies on Computer Science, and startedas a consultant developing software.
2.) VIC-20 = The VIC-20 debuted in June of 1980 at the Computer Electronics Show but its development started almost by accident two years earlier. Commodore engineered and manufactured the "Video Interface Chip 6506" or VIC1 for the video game market which was beginning to collapse. After not being able to sell the chip, Commodore developed the VIC-20 as an inexpensive home computer. Between early 1981, when the VIC actually hit store shelves, and the first few months of 1985, when the last VIC production line was shut down, it had sold more than 2.5 million units. It had an very impressive peak daily production of 9000 units and was the worlds first computer to sell more than 1 million units. There are reports that during its development it was called the MicroPET. and there is a lot of debate over the origins "20" portion of the VIC-20 name. The Commodore Executive responsible for the VIC's development, and the author of The Home Computers Wars, Michael Tomczyk, stated repeatedly that he choose the name simply because he thought it "sounded good". The assembler supported the usual symbolic addressing and the definition of character strings or hex strings. It also allowed address expressions which could be combined with addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, logical AND, logical OR, and exponentiation operators.
REFERENCES:*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_language#Historical_perspective *http://www.theflamearrows.info/documents/asminfo.html *http://www.commodore.ca/products/vic20/commodore_vic-20.htm
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2.) VIC-20 = The VIC-20 debuted in June of 1980 at the Computer Electronics Show but its development started almost by accident two years earlier. Commodore engineered and manufactured the "Video Interface Chip 6506" or VIC1 for the video game market which was beginning to collapse. After not being able to sell the chip, Commodore developed the VIC-20 as an inexpensive home computer. Between early 1981, when the VIC actually hit store shelves, and the first few months of 1985, when the last VIC production line was shut down, it had sold more than 2.5 million units. It had an very impressive peak daily production of 9000 units and was the worlds first computer to sell more than 1 million units. There are reports that during its development it was called the MicroPET. and there is a lot of debate over the origins "20" portion of the VIC-20 name. The Commodore Executive responsible for the VIC's development, and the author of The Home Computers Wars, Michael Tomczyk, stated repeatedly that he choose the name simply because he thought it "sounded good". The assembler supported the usual symbolic addressing and the definition of character strings or hex strings. It also allowed address expressions which could be combined with addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, logical AND, logical OR, and exponentiation operators.
REFERENCES:*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_language#Historical_perspective *http://www.theflamearrows.info/documents/asminfo.html *http://www.commodore.ca/products/vic20/commodore_vic-20.htm
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