Re: Quantity of machine code programmers and quantity of Assembly programmers

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From: Andreas Kohlbach
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 20:22

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On Sat, 28 Apr 2018 11:45:27 -0700 (PDT), hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
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> On Saturday, April 28, 2018 at 5:37:31 AM UTC-4, Andy Leighton wrote:
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>> Yeah but if you were familiar with 68000 assembly language then moving to
>> the 8086/88 (or successors) was painful.
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> Was it a problem to move from S/360 assembler to x86 assembler?

I think the segmenting was a big problem for many programmers. M68000 was
more straight forward.
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Andreas

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