On 7/15/2016 12:15 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 07/15/2016 11:52 AM, Guy Sotomayor Jr wrote:
P.S. A full build for the board I work on (OS and creating the boot
image) for work takes < 1 hour. The firmware I’m working on takes
just 2-3 seconds to build! This is on a PC with a 3.2GHz Skylake i7
with SSDs. ;-)
The problem is that while the PCs are getting faster, I'm slowing down.
One vivid memory I have of the S/360 F-level assembler is that while the
macro language was very rich, macros could take a very long time to
evaluate. Some of the "system" macros were real doozies.
Hasp and I think Control program (??) on MVT were about a foot high.
The system programmers for our shop at University of Missouri, Rolla,
360/50, MVT 19 thru 21 era had a hot plate, skillet, and they snacked on
spam while waiting and working. Made for a unique aroma to the computer
center.
Of course, none of that compares to the card-only systems without mass
storage.
--Chuck
