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Article #623304Re: Quantity of machine code programmers and quantity of Assembly programmers
From: Peter Flass
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 22:04
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 22:04
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J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > X86 segmentation is an ABOMINATION. -- Pete
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