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My partner writes System/360 assembly language for a living, an enormously complex product that's a bit like a suite of kernel modules for Linux. It's called MV
by NelsonMinar 5y ago
My partner writes System/360 assembly language for a living, an enormously complex product that's a bit like a suite of kernel modules for Linux. It's called MVS or z/OS these days but there's still a robust market for big iron.
- raarts 5y agoI wrote assembly language on IBM/360 in ACP (Airline Control Program) and TPF (Transaction Processing Facility) for KLM. It was fun. A totally different world. My manager/mentor had worked with punch cards (phased out just before I came in) and was known to only get two errors on average in the nightly compile batches. (People could only compile once per day, and one program could be comprised of hundreds of card). Very impressive for assembly.
- Koshkin 5y agoAn interesting aspect of assembly programming on punch cards is that since many lines of code in different programs look the same, you could “write” new code by just reshuffling an old deck!