[m87339]

I tell them about 360 assembler

Ahh, the good old days -- programming in BAL was for real men -- even the women who did so were real men!

16 fixed point registers and almost all of them spoken for. I had to write a stacking macro simulator (I think that was on the 370) since I kept running our of registers.

[pt17]

programming in BAL was for real men

LOL, yes indeed. There weren't no sissy pants twits, who couldn't understand BALR, around back then. No gobs of memory to get liberal with. No siree.