Re: The best place to begin learning Assembler

--- In [email protected], Ron Hudson <hudson.ra@...> wrote:
>
> Ok, I have the PDF of the 370 Principals of Operations (Sept) and the
> Instruction Overview from SimoTime
> 
> (I noticed AR and ALR seem to be the same instruction??)
> 
> Where, apart from these references, is the best place 
> to learn Assembly?

One option available is to do some genuine assembler
work that doesn't require much/any assembler skills
(but that many people around these groups are interested
in). That is the MVS 3.8j source code resuscitation
project. We have original source code, and a 
slightly-changed object code, and the goal is to
update the original code to match the current
object code, by disassembling the object code.

The nature of the project means that it's basically
impossible to have any bugs, because the end product
already exists and can be exactly compared.

The source is available on the TK3 CD, and
already-updated (by various people) code is available 
via various means.

BFN.  Paul.