[Gllug] Hello all

[John G Walker]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:18:58 +0100 Ian Northeast
<ian at house-from-hell.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Rich Walker wrote:
> > salsaman <salsaman at xs4all.nl> writes:
> > 
> > 
> >>James Roberts wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Originally trained as IBM 360 asssembly programmer/analyst at
> >>>Control Data Corporation rather a long time ago.
> >>
> >>You haXXored mainframes...in assembly ?! That's pretty 1337...;-)
> 
> Nothing unusual about using assembler on mainframes. 

Not only not unusual, it was pretty common once upon a time. I too was
once a 360 assembler programmer.

In fact, before I started writing assembler for the 360, I worked on a
rather more primitive machine (which, of course, we thought was pretty
sophisticated at the time) where we'd compile a program in, say, COBOL
and then, if necessary, type in a patch, from the console, in machine
code.

When I moved to the 360 - where this was possible, but difficult, and
definitely not recommended - I felt that I was losing control. It took
a while to adjust, 

-- 
 All the best,
 John
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