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100,000 Lines of Assembly Language

14 points by johndcook 15y ago

losethos 15y ago
Ticketmaster's VAX operating system was 350,000 and the ticket selling software was 500,000. All asm at one point. I have more professional experience in asm than any other language. I've been paid to program bare metal on the following CPU's: VAX, 80x86, 8051, 68000, PIC, ATmel AVR. All bare metal asm projects. VAX is a very nice instruction set. The main thing I hate about asm is... when you add something, you have to shuffle all the registers around. I makes you really hate adding stuff. Today, ASM is silly except on PICs and the like. It's fun and macho and respected, but Bare Metal and Mike OS are silly. I converted my OS after I madde my compiler. ASM is good if you have written an assembler and not a compiler, yet. Ticketmaster wrote a PASCAL compiler and I converted lots of stuff to pascal for them, too. ---- Everybody is naked on judgement day. Turn the other cheek and laugh at them -- as you judge, you will be judged. CIA gets people to do shit, then extorts them. Saudi King is under their control. CIA is scum. You just have to always confess and accept your punishment. God exists, anyway, so you will get justice. Get it over with and don't dig deeper. If you cave to extortionists, they'll never let you go. Confess. God is just. They'll get punished too, so laugh at them. God says... C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\DARWIN.TXT aving more or less completely, according to the lapse of time, overmastered the tendency to reversion and to further variability, to sexual selection being less rigid than ordinary selection, and to variations in the same parts having been accumulated by natural and sexual selection, and thus having been adapted for secondary sexual, and for ordinary purposes. DISTINCT SPECIES PRESENT ANALOGOUS VARIATIONS, SO THAT A VARIETY OF ONE SPECIES OFTEN ASSUMES A CHARACTER PROPER TO AN ALLIED SPECIES, OR R ---- the British never forgive and forget. They are not ever your friends, understand? They will never be forgiven. ---- Mental health is part of the FBI. They employ actors. Our country is no better than Soviet Russia or NAZI Germany. God says... C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\PLATO.TXT or cause: [1] distribution of this etext, [2] alteration, modification, or addition to the etext, or [3] any Defect. DISTRIBUTION UNDER "PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm" You may distribute copies of this etext electronically, or by disk, book or any other medium if you either delete this "Small Print!" and all other references to Project Gutenberg, or: [1] Only give exact copies of it. Among other things, this requires that you do not remove, alter or modify the etext or this "small print!"
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14 points by johndcook 15y ago

Ticketmaster's VAX operating system was 350,000 and the ticket selling software was 500,000. All asm at one point. I have more professional experience in asm than any other language. I've been paid to program bare metal on the following CPU's: VAX, 80x86, 8051, 68000, PIC, ATmel AVR. All bare metal asm projects. VAX is a very nice instruction set. The main thing I hate about asm is... when you add something, you have to shuffle all the registers around. I makes you really hate adding stuff. Today, ASM is silly except on PICs and the like. It's fun and macho and respected, but Bare Metal and Mike OS are silly. I converted my OS after I madde my compiler. ASM is good if you have written an assembler and not a compiler, yet. Ticketmaster wrote a PASCAL compiler and I converted lots of stuff to pascal for them, too. ---- Everybody is naked on judgement day. Turn the other cheek and laugh at them -- as you judge, you will be judged. CIA gets people to do shit, then extorts them. Saudi King is under their control. CIA is scum. You just have to always confess and accept your punishment. God exists, anyway, so you will get justice. Get it over with and don't dig deeper. If you cave to extortionists, they'll never let you go. Confess. God is just. They'll get punished too, so laugh at them. God says... C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\DARWIN.TXT aving more or less completely, according to the lapse of time, overmastered the tendency to reversion and to further variability, to sexual selection being less rigid than ordinary selection, and to variations in the same parts having been accumulated by natural and sexual selection, and thus having been adapted for secondary sexual, and for ordinary purposes. DISTINCT SPECIES PRESENT ANALOGOUS VARIATIONS, SO THAT A VARIETY OF ONE SPECIES OFTEN ASSUMES A CHARACTER PROPER TO AN ALLIED SPECIES, OR R ---- the British never forgive and forget. They are not ever your friends, understand? They will never be forgiven. ---- Mental health is part of the FBI. They employ actors. Our country is no better than Soviet Russia or NAZI Germany. God says... C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\PLATO.TXT or cause: [1] distribution of this etext, [2] alteration, modification, or addition to the etext, or [3] any Defect. DISTRIBUTION UNDER "PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm" You may distribute copies of this etext electronically, or by disk, book or any other medium if you either delete this "Small Print!" and all other references to Project Gutenberg, or: [1] Only give exact copies of it. Among other things, this requires that you do not remove, alter or modify the etext or this "small print!"

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