Hello David!

Tuesday January 23 1996, David Noon writes to Murray Lesser:

 ML>> Don't knock called assembler code!  I bought my PS/2 model 80-A71

 DN> Up until a few months ago I lived and breathed assembler. It pays
 DN> better than the other languages, but it's a tad harder to write and
 DN> debug. After dealing with legacy assembler, I find legacy COBOL a
 DN> breeze. [Although Intel assembler is rather easier to deal with than
 DN> mainframe assembler.]

I was brought up on mainframe assembler, but could never get the hang of it
on PC's... The idea that a word was two bytes was something I couldn't come
to terms with :-).

You wouldn't have come across a book such as 'PC Assembler for mainframers'
would you? It would be handy having such a book...

John
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