On 03/16/2016 09:57 AM, Dave Howorth wrote:
When I began my career, we programmed in an assembly language that had no opcodes. We coded the operations directly in octal - 070 was a subroutine call IIRC. The idea was that when it came time to read the dump after a crash, we would already be very familiar with the octal. Dumps were on fanfold paper and we had a nice long office floor to spread them out.
Are you sure there weren't op codes? Or perhaps you just weren't aware of them? I also used to work in octal on my Imsai 8080, but I still knew most of the op codes. I also worked in octal on some Data General mini computers. I also worked in microcode on them. I also worked a lot with paper tape and often had piles of it on the floor. ;-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org