Assembly or ....

[Liber]

[followups to comp.lang.misc]

In article <1432 at zen.co.uk> frank at 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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