Old Roadie wrote:
> hi, all. Bill Becker here, for those that may remember me.
>
> Is assembler still being used? Did I make the right move getting out of
> systems programming and into the bicycle business?
>
> I was looking at some of my old code the other day, and was pleasantly
> surprised to see that I still understood all of it! Even the channel
> programming and qedit/stop/modify stuff.
>
> Some of the code written while stoned, however, still remains a mystery.
> But last I remember, surprising in and of itself, ran just fine to
> normal completion (CC=0, not abend'ing)
>
> Thinking about retirement now. But still looking for something to do
> besides wrench on bikes, so I'm going to throw my hat into the fray and
> perhaps wrench on code again part time. Any op****tunities out there?
There's less need for assembler these days -- there are far fewer APIs
that are assembler-only, performance is rarely as critical as it used to
be, and C is available instead. And there are about twice as many
op-codes nowadays, some for Unicode handling and IEEE floating point,
but also a large addition to handle 64-bit registers and a whole new set
of instructions conceptually im****ted from the RISC world. Except for
packed decimal, it's possible to write entire programs without using a
single S/360 opcode.
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