In <4c56c44e.6000...@acm.org>, on 08/02/2010
at 08:12 AM, "Joel C. Ewing" <jcew...@acm.org> said:
>I dealt with assemblers on other platforms in those early days and
>didn't have to deal with Assembler on the S/360 platform until it had
>over a decade to mature, but my impression from the remarks (and
>code) of one of my predecessors is that over-liberal usage of
>Assembler symbols in the early days gave you problems on machines
>with small physical memory or greatly increased the assembly
>time.
I had acceptable S/360 times in 1966, and on even smaller older
systems before then.
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