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From: vms.macc.wisc.EDU@DOGIE.MACC.WISC.EDU (Neil Gilmore)
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Subject: Re: IBM Assembler as a First C.Sc. subject
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Date: 7 May 90 03:58:13 GMT
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In article <9005041427.AA02995@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, phorgan@cup.portal.COM
        (Patrick John Horgan) writes...

>When you start in the computer science program at Corpus Christi
>State University (part of the Texas A&M System), one of the first
>courses is CS 323 Computer organization and assembler language.
>The assembler language used to teach the course is 370.  I still
>have fond memories of studying dumps to unassemble them.  Hell of
>a way to learn hex and assembler:)

At MATC, it was the first of the programming classes, and used to weed
out those who couldn't cut it. The timetable gave many dire warnings
about having to spend all your free time in the lab. Unfortunatly, it
didn't teach programming as much as note-taking (i.e. about all you had
to do was copy what was on the balckboard into the machine, and it would
work). This was probably because the school churned out semi-literate
cobol droids. The programs weren't even interesting. Now I'm at a real
school. We learn vax assembler. The programs are even less interesting,
as they're optional for the course.

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