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Old 14-09-2013, 10:32 AM
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Gday Peter



Or was it programmed in C and then "tweaked" in assembler

Andrew

( who patches the Meade firmwares by manually manipulating the machine code hex files created from the assembler code
Ie i fight at times to rewrite stuff in order to save one byte of free space )
Definitely assembler. Rene Goerlich was still writing the original Gemini code while staying with us in Sydney....he was rather fond of Redback beer, which seemed to help keeping the code flowing

BTW Rene wrote much of the machine code for IBM mainframes...