Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!AMES.ARC.NASA.GOV!amdcad.amd.COM!pepsi!dwork From: amdcad.amd.COM!pepsi!dwork@AMES.ARC.NASA.GOV (Jeff Dwork) Newsgroups: comp.lang.asm370 Subject: Re: IBM Assembler as a First C.Sc. subject Message-ID: <9005021931.AA06612@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 1 May 90 19:29:57 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: IBM 370 Assembly Programming Discussion List Distribution: inet Organization: The Internet Lines: 26 In article <9004281635.AA13156@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> IBM 370 Assembly Programming Discussion List writes: >As many of you are doubtless well aware, a discussion is currently >raging in comp.edu and overflowing into other groups concerning >the ideal language for C.Sc. courses. I think I'm in a fairly >unique position in that the first language taught in my C.Sc. course >was SPASM - IBM Single Pass Assembler. Yes, quite amazing. > >Anyone else out there in a similar position (apart from graduates >of Trinity College, Dublin ?). >-- As an undergrad at MIT in 1965 or 66, I was taught FAP (Fortran Assembly Program) - 7094 assembler. At grad school (Stanford 1970), it was IBM360 assembler using a single pass assembler also called SPASM (or SPAS?). The availability of hardware simplified the language choice. --- Jeff Jeff Dwork | 408-749-2356 | dwork@AMD.COM Advanced Micro Devices, M/S 45 |--------------------------------------- PO Box 3453 | The above opionions are mine, Sunnyvale, Ca 94088 | not AMD's.