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To: rudedog who wrote (27332)	2/7/2000 12:37:00 PM
From: buck	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

OT Assembler code and saving memory You're making my heart warm with this talk of core, subroutine parmlists, segments, and my all-time favorite, self-modifying assembler code. I picked up the gauntlet at the end of the 70s fresh out of high school, with the MFT/MVT/MVS days. Fortunately, there were a lot of crusty old systems programmers around who didn't mind showing an interested lad a trick or two. I can still smell the 40 lbs. of green-bar paper and hot ink on my desk from a "core dump" after the system melted down. Ah, youth...