newbie building a scratch-built computer

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Thursday 02 August 2007 05:48, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 12:57:53AM +0100, Ensor wrote:
> > > >....I would very much like to learn machine code. I figure that
> > > >when I start college interviews in a year going toward something
> > > >
> >  >>in the technology field....
> > >
> > > That sort of thing tends to not have very much use in today's job
> > > market, unfortunately.
> >
> > As an assembly language programmer of some 29 years experience (not to
> > mention some 31 years experience of electronics....I started young) I
> > agree with that in spades!
>
> When *I'm* interviewing prospective employees, I very much like to hear
> that they know their way around an assembler, even though most of our
> work is done in perl.  If you've done assembler, you know programming from
> the *computer's* point of view, and I'm absolutely convinced that that
> gives you a significant advantage when it comes to debuggering,
> especially debuggering interactions with other systems, and a better
> understanding of the resources the computer makes available to your
> code.

"Debuggering"...?  I love it!   :-)

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