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 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allen E. Elwood Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 1:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [U2] PICK Assembler Language 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. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chuck Mongiovi Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 11:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
