-=> Quoting david nugent to Ian Binnie <=-

 dn> BTW, this is the basic format/syntax of assembler used by any of the
 dn> UNIX variants available for the PC since the Microsoft/SCO Xenix days
 dn> of 1986. The GNU assembler uses much the same sort of thing. The
 dn> syntax - but of course not the instruction set - is derived from
 dn> assembler for the DEC PDP series of processors on which UNIX was first
 dn> developed. 

 dn> BTW, does this assember use  opcode from,to  as used by the PDP style
 dn> assembler  or  opcode to,from  as used by the Intel ASM degenerates? 

Yes it does. I always thought this was natural, a kind of reverse polish
version of the c "lvalue operator expression".


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