When I was a CS PhD student, I spent the summer of 1988 writing assembly code on a parallel machine (Encore Multimax) that was running a variant of Unix. I wrot

When I was a CS PhD student, I spent the summer of 1988 writing assembly code on a parallel machine (Encore Multimax) that was running a variant of Unix. I wrote the runtime system (a virtual machine actually) for a parallel programming language. Haven't used assembly language since then!