Re: assembly programming on mips (doc pointers req)

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>Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 17:39:06 -0400
>From: mike <mmilewski@comcast.net>
>Subject: Re: assembly programming on mips (doc pointers req)
>To: [email]info-iris-misc@ARL.ARMY.MIL[/email][/color]
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>> I have worked with computers for almost four decades. I have used them,
>> programmed them, operated them, designed and built them from the logic
>> gate level, taught classes on their languages at the masters level and
>> operating internals of System V UNIX professionally (including to a
>> telephone company computer center staff). I have seen the almost
>> complete disappearance of assembly language coding except in the areas
>> that I indicated above.[/color][/color]
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>you seem to leave out the other use for ASM, i.e. cracking/hacking binaries :)[/color]

Actually most of the hacks I have seen were coded directly in C
without any associated assembly language, even for Windows hacks.

But, I grant your point nonetheless.

Randolph J. Herber, [email]herber@fnal.gov[/email], +1 630 840 2966, CD/CDFTF PK-149F,
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