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Article #623303Re: Quantity of machine code programmers and quantity of Assembly programmers
From: J. Clarke
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 19:33
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 19:33
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On Sat, 28 Apr 2018 11:45:27 -0700 (PDT), hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote: >On Saturday, April 28, 2018 at 5:37:31 AM UTC-4, Andy Leighton wrote: > >> Yeah but if you were familiar with 68000 assembly language then moving to >> the 8086/88 (or successors) was painful. > >Was it a problem to move from S/360 assembler to x86 assembler? I found the main problem making that move was the poor documentation of the x86 instruction set and the cost of a decent assembler (tiny in mainframe terms but large in '80s engineer paying out of pocket terms). Frome what I remember, and it has been a _long_ time, x86 segmentation is a lot different conceptually from the base/offset addressing on the 3x0.
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