On 30 Dec 2012, at 21:16, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: On 12/29/2012 04:59 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: 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. Modern or older x86? ;) There's a difference? I mean, I know a handful of instructions were stapled onto the side occasionally throughout the years, and x86_64 made things a BIT more sane...brought it squarely into the late 1980s...but it's still pretty ungainly. I was referring to something like: original 8086 ASM compared with late-model pentium III ASM. ;) -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net/ Personal stuff! http://gimme-sympathy.org/ My permanently-a-work-in-progress pet project.