[rescue] 128 bits...

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
 
>    It seems that a lot of schools teach really outdated stuff.  Not
> sure 
> why that is...familiarity perhaps?

Maybe Intel subsidised the x86 assembly lab?

Maybe the teacher wrote a book on the topic,a nd enjoys the slow but
steady stream of $$$

Maybe the lack of a good textbook for another platform?

Maybe the teacher is tired of learning new things?

I learned 68000 assembler from a horrible book (essentially it was the
CPU reference manual from motorola). I would have like to studied
PDP-11 assembler at the time, but the school only had a 680x0-based
unix box for CS students. Well, that and a PRIME mainframe.

=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976
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