Re: Re: The best place to begin learning Assembler

Mike Stramba <[email protected]> Thu, 27 May 2010 20:03:07 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.turnkey-mvs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> Where, apart from these references, is the best place
>> to learn Assembly?

>That is the MVS 3.8j source code resuscitation
>project. We have original source code, and a
>slightly-changed object code,

>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.

Nothing like starting "small" LOL.

Have your 1 year old / infant do a lake crossing when teaching them to
swim too :/


On 5/27/10, kerravon86 <kerravon86-/[email protected]> wrote:
> --- 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.
>
>
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