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Re:The Texas Instruments 99/4: World’s First 16-Bit Computer by pmiller2 on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @02:38AM (#14642972)
100% not true. There was an editor/assembler cartridge that let you program in ASM.
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Re:The Texas Instruments 99/4: World’s First 16-Bit Computer by nsxwolf on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @01:18AM (#14651861)
Your other option was the Mini Memory cartridge, which added a scaled down version of Editor/Assembler as well as 8K of RAM and a battery backup.

It was an economical way to dabble in assembly without springing for the 32K RAM expansion and disk system.

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Re:The Texas Instruments 99/4: World’s First 16-Bit Computer by T-hawk on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @11:01AM (#14645992)
It had very little adoption and mindshare, though. All the assembly hackers were on the C-64, Apple II, and a bit later the PC.
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