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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: using (ugh!  yetch!) assembler
Message-ID: <1988Aug2.231433.25760@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Tue, 2 Aug 88 23:14:33 GMT

In article <1148@anasaz.UUCP> john@anasaz.UUCP (John Moore) writes:
>If you ever make an airline or hotel reservation, or use a credit card
>and have an authorization check run on it, you are making use of very
>large systems written entirely in assembly language! ...

If I'm not mistaken, Sabre (American Airlines) for one is written in
a PL/I variant and has been for many years.  They got burned by the
conversion to the 360 and swore that they would never again write in
assembler.
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MSDOS is not dead, it just     |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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