I learned BAL on the 360.  Never used it commercially, but it led to other
things.  I learned Z80 assembler and wrote some disk drivers for MP/M many
moons ago.  Wrote a few functions in assembler on a Microdata Reality
system.  Then picked up x86 assembler and wrote some device drivers
(touchscreen, MSR, manager keylock, etc) for some IBM POS hardware running
DOS back in the late 80's/early 90's.  Haven't used any assembler since
then.  Low level bit-twiddling stuff all gets written in C now.

Larry Hiscock
Western Computer Services


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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allen E. Elwood
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 1:07 PM
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I learned assembly on the IBM 370.  Took two whole years of it.

What a waste of time.......never used it once.

My teacher was an ex IBM employee that used to exclusively write I/O
routines.  Last I heard he had gone insane.  This gives a bit of insight
into the difficulty of that language.

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Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 11:42
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Subject: RE: [U2] PICK Assembler Language


> Pick *has* an assembly language???!!!

Back when PICK ran native instead of under Unix (or whatever) ..

And some of us even programmed in it ..

-Chuck
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