On 12/29/2012 04:53 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: I know someone that was trying to make an IRC bot in x86 ASM... I'll probably do one in PDP-11 assembler, just to spite you. :-) Hehe. I ported unix `cal' program from OpenBSD sources to RSX, wrote it in MACRO-11, and got an interesting result: OpenBSD's cal.c - 562 lines My CAL.MAC - 490 lines :) That was... unexpected... :-) To be fair, PDP-11 assembler is...well, nice. I wonder how fat it'd be on an ungainly old x86. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA