One can see why the Principles of Operation manual (PoP) was designed in its
present format...to save paper.
There is now no need to design this manual in a form that was suitable 30 years
ago.
Now that I've restarted teaching Assembler I realise that the PoP neither
serves the professional
Personally I don't think it's design was to save paper.
I think it was to 'be concise'.
And that is what I think it needs to be.
As for reorganizing it into different chapters, that might be useful.
But we cannot afford to have it lose its concise nature.
Joey
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The PrOp is certainly improvable in detail; and detailed suggestions
for its improvement are made and accepted routinely.
It is not, however, an HLASM textbook. It is a reference work; and it
should, I think, remain so. If Melvyn needs a textbook for his
assemby-language students and none of
Hi Joey,
I think you miss the point.
Conciseness is essential.
What I am suggesting is that each instruction is concisely defined.
Start with ADD in Chapter 7, where 15 instructions are concisely compressed
into a meaningless hotchpotch of description.
Do you think that a student after
