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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: using (ugh!  yetch!) assembler
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Date: 2 Aug 88 20:02:23 GMT
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In article <1148@anasaz.UUCP> john@anasaz.UUCP (John Moore) writes:
}None of this is to imply that assembly language is a good way to do
}applications! Just to show that some extremely large systems are done
}that way.

Another example:

Most of the code in the Space Shuttle's on board computers is written in
assembler.  I know because I once had to document a large chunk of it (the
Initial Program Load (IPL) module).

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