21 Aug
2001
21 Aug
'01
4:04 a.m.
>> You mean you teach them Intel assembler?
>Yes
>Not because it's "good", but because it's needed. (I teach at a
community
>college, where we are teaching "useful" skills, not the abstractions of
>the university.)
On 21 Aug 2001, Iggy Drougge wrote:
I didn't know Intel was needed. If that is the
case, it must be the fault of
community colleges (whatever that is).
You are familiar with how many computers there are with Intel 80x86 family
processors, and you are familiar with the software that is being run.
Are you saying that there ISN'T a need to imporove the quality of that
software?
I just love it when people just use what they're
familiar with, instead of
actually investigating the alternatives. That's one reason why computing is so
tedious today.
If you can get a quorum for a class at this school in some other processor
family and meet the state legal requirements, then I will personally break
enough administrator arms to get you hired to teach it.
We used to have a "Mainframe Assembly Language" course (IBM 360 family),
but the guy who taught it retired and took it with him (remember Guy
Lombardo and New Years?)
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com