[rescue] Good reading

[Lionel Peterson]

--- "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm at bfr.co.il> wrote:
<snip>
> Practicaly my mother tounge. I've written well over 100,000 lines of
> BAL code for money.

Cool - keep the faith! 
  
> >    I'm doing some assembler tonight, actually.  Not on a 360,
> though, 
> > unfortunately.
> 
> Oh well, IMHO the best assembly languages to program were IBM
> 360/370, CDC 6800 and Motoroala 68000 in that order.
> 
> IMHO INTEL went out of their way to design bad machine languages.
> 
> BTW, someone has written an IBM mainframe emulator. Out of the box it
> runs VM 370 REL 6 and MVS 3.8.  If you can talk IBM out of a license
> you can run the latest versions (very difficult). On the other hand
> it's jus like the old days. "r 00,u" Whooeeeeeeeeeee

Cool - link?

Found this the other day - www.dbit.com, "ersatz11 PDP-11 simulator"...

I'd love to simulate/emulate some big iron at home ;^)

(Please, be kind...)

Lionel

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Lionel
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