SemiOT: Mourning for Classic Computing

From: Master of all that Sucks <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Wed Aug 15 09:52:13 2001

On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:

> > > I've always thought that one of the more simple assembly languages would
> > > be a great 'first language' for someone wanting to learn how to program.
> > > Who's with me?
> > I think S/360-S/370 assembler would work quite well. It starts out
> > exceedingly simple, then moves to variable length opcodes, variable word
> > length, four-level indirection, etc. Doesn't require it to do useful
> > stuff though. But I am a bit biased towards mainframes.
> Yeah, that was my first... in fact, at quitting time, I sometimes
> think "time to BALR *,HOME" or something like that...

That's good. I like that 8-)

Peace... Sridhar
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