[Novalug] Historical Assembly, was: Wii iiiiii !!!!!!!
Kevin Cole
kjcole@ubuntu.com
Thu Nov 23 10:46:13 EST 2006
James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:
> How many CPUs did you program? I was fortunate to use many, and Intel
> was by far the worst.
I liked the quirkiness of the DEC-10 myself. It wasn't my first
architecture, but remains a favorite. As for the PDP-11, for the life
of me, I'll never understand the fascination for octal, as it made
separating a 16-bit number into two 8-bit numbers a pain in the ass.
...
> Consider TECO, Snobol, and sendmail config files.
make love
not war?
Ya just gotta love stuff like that and the Dynamic Debugging Tool --
DDT: it kills bugs. 36-bit words and 7-bit bytes: 5 bytes per word
and "a little bit left over". Bring humor back (and don't hide it
all in the source code)! ;-)
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