I started learning assembler (it was called Autocoder on the 7080, it was the only language available to us) in a class taught at Boeing by an IBM SE. Its first week covered the POP. That was in January, 1964.
Regards, Richard Schuh > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of gah > Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 1:07 AM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: Immediate instructions (was "nonames") > > Someone wrote: > > > Oh come on Alan, you learn the new machine (not assembler) > > instructions the IBM way, you look at what the PL/X > (or > whatever it is called today) compiler generates.... > > I think I started learning assembler from the code that the > Fortran G and H compilers generated. Next was the Fortran G > and H library and some other library routines. > (A good way to learn self-modifying code.) > > -- glen >
