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From: bsteve@gorgo.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Teaching Assembler on VAX (BSD 4.3)
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Date: Thu, 28-May-87 09:09:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 28 09:09:00 1987
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Nf-From: gorgo.UUCP!bsteve    May 28 08:09:00 1987


BLETCH!

This discussion is becomming totally pointless. I would not even consider
teaching assembly language with 'as' on the VAX. It is easy enough to recall
that in that environment 'C' IS the assembly language for the most part.

Nevertheless, I do not believe that assembly language should be omitted from
the curriculum. It is an essential part of a student's introduction to
machine organization.

The VAX is a nice choice for teaching assembly language, but only with the
VMS assembler. MACRO32 is probably one of the best assembly language
programming environments to be had anywhere. After all, it is still a real
programming language under VMS (not that this is good :-).

   Steve Blasingame (Oklahoma City)
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