Hunsberger, Peter wrote:
> Pier Fumagalli <pier@betaversion.org> writes:
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>>On 31 Mar 2004, at 21:39, Hunsberger, Peter wrote:
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>>>My assembler exposure (many years of OS maintenance) was
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>>the IBM 370
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>>>(latter 390) variant, more registers, but basically the
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>>same kind of
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>>>muckity muck with the addition of channel programming; IO that
>>>modifies IO
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>>I feel so old... I've coded on the S/36 in the mid 80s :-(
>>They were good as office-heaters, though!
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> Heck, you're a young pup. S/34 and S/36 (and maybe even S/32) where all
> after IBM 360 and 370. The first IBM 360 I worked with you could stand
> inside.... (I should have written my first real ASM -- outside of a
> machine language class -- was IBM 360.)
Ok, you guys. Quit banging on your chests and get back to work. :P
By the way, I used to work with Charles Babbage...
Geoff
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