Isn't x86 assembler nasty? I've seen parts and pieces of it, but I've never sat down and written something completely in it. I tend to get lost in all the registers. :P All the ASM I dove into was Moto 68000(a breeze to program with compared to Intel x86) and a small amount of ancient 8-bit stuff during my college lab days. Most of that was for PLC integration. I had a blast with that stuff. I wish I could've taken that further in my career. Speaking of 68K and 6800 chips, I still have some 68K and 6800 processor programming manuals and lab books if anyone is interested. I'll put them up on eBay if there's interest.
Glen http://picksource.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Larry Hiscock > Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 4:52 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [U2] PICK Assembler Language > > > 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/ ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
