From: rich@example.invalid   
      
   Scott Dorsey  wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Indeed yes.  I, however, was not so lucky.  I got the full 60-bit   
   experience with the official assembler.  And it was a weird CPU as   
   compared to writing 6502 code.  Move addresses to an address register,   
   wait the requisite number of cycles, and a data fetch from memory at   
   that address magically appears in the corresponding data register.   
   Quite oddball vs. lda $0602.   
      
   I acclimated to the oddness and got an A from the course, but damn if   
   that CPU wasn't weird six ways from Sunday.   
      
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