#2   100 14 Sep 85  00:11:47  (RECV'D) 
From: Zhahai Stewart
To:   Sysop
SEE ALSO #3
Subj: old days

Really, the vectrex?  That was the system with a gen-u-ine vector display (ie: 
stroke graphics) right?  I was interested in that at one time, soory to see it 
leave.
The 6809 was a neat processor; unfortunately it was late in the 8 bit game - 
if Motorola had introduced it a couple of years earlier, it might have had a 
more important impact on both the market and the micro architecture of today.  
By the way, the punster in me has always thought that Motorola missed one of 
the best opportunities in naming within the micro world.  There are 5 
instructions which load an effecive address to a 16 bit register in the 6809 - 
all but 1 of which have the mnemonic LEA? where ? is th register name.  The 
other one loads an effective address into the program counter (jmp) and would 
be logically called LEAP (without any stretching).  Such logically fitting 
puns are hard to find, too bad they didn't accept LEAP as an alias for JMP/
. Oh well.
How did you get into horse  ranching?  How involved are you in music 
now-a-days, by the way?


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#3   88 14 Sep 85  08:32:10  (RECV'D) 
From: Sysop
To:   Zhahai Stewart
REPLY TO #2   
Subj: musical horses

I am pleased that you have heard of Vectrex.  I have reason to believe that 
there is an underground Vectrex User's Group floating around in the higher 
parts of the academic sector.  They are using the thing as a vector terminal 
to larger machines.  They have completely reverse engineered it, and 
disassembled its ROM code.  They have discovered several new games (one of 
which I wrote), that never were released.  It is facinating how a machine that 
has so much potential can be scrapped for bad marketing in a badly timed 
market.
 
As for horses, I just love them.  It has been a dream for me for many years to 
own horses, and live somewhere where there is enough room to keep them.  I 
have this problem, though.  I can't seem to justify doing anything (to myself 
only) if it is not a "business venture".  I don't like this problem because it 
makes it very difficult for me to "play".  At any rate, my wife and I decided 
that to breed horses was the PERFECT excuse for having them.  So here we are...
 
As for music, "...I don't get around much any more...", but I would very much 
like to.  I have met a few people over Mountain Bell's lines, but time 
prohibits me from being very sociable.  I have my hands full with two computer 
clients, a horse ranch, and a house that is a "Fixerupper", and must be ready 
for winter in a month or less. 
 
Are you a musician?   Do you ride horses?  If your knees bent the other way, 
what would chairs look like?
 
Good typin' at you.   Until later then.... /mark/
 
P.S.  I never thought of "LEAP"... That's very nice.  I always liked the 
mnemonic "SEX" though.  Bye