My first experience was when I was a coop student at DEC/Marlboro. First summer, I learned the -10 and wrote sysdpy in BLISS-10. Next summer, I wrote the KL-1

My first experience was when I was a coop student at DEC/Marlboro. First summer, I learned the -10 and wrote sysdpy in BLISS-10. Next summer, I wrote the KL-10 spooler - in assembly language. Folks these days don't appreciate that early OSs were all written in assembler because - efficiency! TOPS-20 was a well-curated set of JRSTs and Macros -- building blocks to build code quickly. Great, well-written assembly is an existential joy to read. During my 2nd summer, I wrote a memo to Gordon Bell, suggesting we (DEC) not burn effort on the LSI-11; I suggested to him that we build the LSI-10 and take over the 'microcomputer' market since there was so much -10 software. He wrote back "Do it!" but, I had to go back to school in the fall, so I didn't get that done. sorry, everybody, everywhere.