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I skipped CP/M, though a friend had it. I was working on IBM 3080 mainframes at the time.Thought these little computers were toys. Soon after, like 1983, my employer plopped an IBM 3270 PC on my desk -- that's an IBM PC with a 3270 video adapter and software to allow it to be simultaneously used as a 3278 and a PC. That's when I became hooked. Wrote my first 8088 assmembler program that year. For an IBM mainframe assembler programmer the 8088 assembler was like a time warp back into the stone age.

The Intel instruction set still suffers from that legacy. What could be done in say ten IBM S/360 or S/370 instructions took three times as many instructions on Intel. I recall writing parsers in IBM mainframe assembler using a translate table and a branch table. No such elegance was possible in the Intel world.

BTW, haven't worked on IBM mainframe for 25 years. UNIX now.
 
I skipped CP/M, though a friend had it. I was working on IBM 3080 mainframes at the time.Thought these little computers were toys. Soon after, like 1983, my employer plopped an IBM 3270 PC on my desk -- that's an IBM PC with a 3270 video adapter and software to allow it to be simultaneously used as a 3278 and a PC. That's when I became hooked. Wrote my first 8088 assmembler program that year. For an IBM mainframe assembler programmer the 8088 assembler was like a time warp back into the stone age.

The Intel instruction set still suffers from that legacy. What could be done in say ten IBM S/360 or S/370 instructions took three times as many instructions on Intel. I recall writing parsers in IBM mainframe assembler using a translate table and a branch table. No such elegance was possible in the Intel world.

BTW, haven't worked on IBM mainframe for 25 years. UNIX now.
I started my professional career programming IBM S/360 and S/370 in BAL, COBOL and RPG in the early to mid-70s. I still remember using the Panvalet storage library and the IEBxxxxx series of utilities.
 
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