Re: Assembly Language (was RE: Even the CEO of Monster lies on his resume)

Subject: Re: Assembly Language (was RE: Even the CEO of Monster lies on his resume)
From: John Cornellier <t_w -at- cornellier -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:00:18 +0100


Only 1s and 0s? You were lucky.

Back in my day, we had only zeros, no ones, and we LIKED it.

John Cornellier

2003-01-21 09:18:23, "Damien Braniff" <DBraniff -at- amphion -dot- com> wrote:

>One of my lecturers at university was involved in building 'Baby' in Manchester. We were taught Basic before moving onto Algol etc but he had one little exercise
which brought us all back down to earth.

>Basically we had a little programming exercise to do where the coding was all done but setting switches on a black box. He said that all ANY computer did was to
compare two patterns and give an answer 1 or 0 - everything else was simply a matter of interpretation and how fast it did it :-)



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