COBOL and Assembler.......I learned IBM 360 versions of both in college in the ‘70’s, and served an internship at Columbia River Log Scaling Bureau in Eugene, Or. The main thing I learned from the internship was that programming was just a hobby for me, not a career.
COBOL and Assembler.......I learned IBM 360 versions of both in college in the ‘70’s,
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I decided to go back to school in the 70’s back when Z-80’s were popular. The z-80 was a pain to program because there were no registers larger than 8 bit, yeah there were a couple methods to fake a 16 bit register. You could get some real performance from the Z-80. Hand programming was the only way to get speed. I remember when Microsoft had the Microsoft Basic Assembler. It was very cool, it worked but when I saw the Z-Basic assembler run circles around MBASM I was converted. Assembler on a 360/370 was amazing, there were true 32 bit registers. You could do true multiply commands. Those were pretty interesting days.
The thing I hated about those days was that everything was done on a deck of cards. Get one card out of sequence and your compile would fail and the error report was sometimes meaningless.