From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   In article , Rich   wrote:   
   >Scott Dorsey  wrote:   
   >   
   >> And COMPASS?  That's a very very strange assembler to teach....   
   >   
   >It was the timeshare system the university had for students.  They had   
   >a Cyber 7600 and a Cyber 8600, I only ever had accounts on the 7600.   
   >But since it was the system they used, Compass (I'd forgotten that   
   >name, but that was it) was the assembler.   
      
   gatech used the Cybers to teach an emulated assembler... first they used   
   Donald Knuth's idealized machine, then later an 8080 emulator.  Much easier   
   to teach than a 60-bit assembler with pipeline issues.   
   --scott   
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