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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
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Peter Flass wrote:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>> On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 19:33:40 -0000 (UTC), vjp2.at wrote:
>> 
>>> Assembler and COBOL were needed but avoided
>> 
>> Assembler can be fun.
>> 
>
> Especially PDP-10 assembler. Wonderful instruction set.

  i enjoyed Univac assembler on the 1190 in the '80s.
it spoiled me for anything to do with the IBM-PCs
but gladly i didn't have to get into that much.  the
Amiga at least went with a better architecture.


  songbird