All this reminiscing :-> In college, I learned Control Data Corp's Cyber Assembly - final exam was to translate a bit of code to octal. I must admit that I probably learned more fundamentals of computational theory in that class than any other.
I also for several years had to program in assembler for the Fairchild 9445 chip, used in Data General's computers. My favorite part of that language was how branching worked: you checked the status of any of several flags (e.g., overflow) and skipped the next instruction, which was typically a jump. There was the convention in the language to allow you to do a mathematical operation, update the flags, but not change the data registers. A typical comparison effectively read "Subtract Register 1 from Register 0, but don't really do it, and if the result would have been negative, skip the next instruction." Strange little language, but very tight code. --Tom Pellitieri Toledo, Ohio ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
