In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/21/2008
   at 05:30 PM, Scott Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>Starting writing Assembler on a 360/20,, man 704 days...

I won't try to justify the 704, but one (IBMAP) of the assemblers on,
e.g., the 709, 7090, had a facility (QUAL) that HLA still doesn't have.
And the convert instructions were cool.
 
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     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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