The Importance Of Assembly Language Programming
Posted by Mike on Friday, October 8, 2010 - 1,231 views
Generally speaking, you can divide the history of computers into four periods: the mainframe, the mini, the microprocessor, and the modern post-microprocessor. The mainframe era was characterized by computers that required large buildings and teams of technicians and manipulators to keep them going. More often than not, both academics and students had little direct touch with the mainframe – you handed a deck of punched cards to an operator and waited for the output to come out hours later. During the mainfame era, academics concentrated on languages and compilers, algorithms, and operating systems.
