On 03/16/2016 09:57 AM, Dave Howorth wrote:
On 2016-03-16 12:55, Anton Aylward wrote:
when I began my career and there were few compilers and 'structured programming' was a thing of the future I had a manager who insisted we not only coded in assembler so we knew what was going on in the computer
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.
Cheers, Dave
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