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If reminiscences are in order..



Anyone remember RPG's BITON, BITOFF ?


Once upon a time I used them to construct op codes for a Wenger printer
that was able to print reverse image text (white on black).

Gad



date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:02:48 -0500
from: Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: OT: Re: How to work with Arrays using positional RPG IV

Hey!? Microfiche was not just for the /34!? I worked for Zink and Katich
when I was just a babe, and I remember going through the S/38
microfiche.? Ah, those were the days... patching IBM programs to make
our own commands.

On 8/25/2020 3:49 PM, Bruce Vining wrote:
Jon,

Oh no, PL/MI is nothing like assembler (which I'm well aware you know).
I'm talking 370 and (does anyone remember it?) the S/34. Oh those were
the
days, microfiche for the operating system and away you go :)

On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 5:10 PM Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

"Assembler" as in PL/MI Bruce ? I suspect that even MI would be too high
level if you really want to bit twiddle!

Interestingly had the original question been about C or MI I could
understand it since they still have utility. It was ancient RPG that
got me
and (at the time) I didn't know we were talking V5R4.



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