Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy

In article <vpol5t$2r3ql$1@dont-email.me>, Rich  <rich@example.invalid> wrote:

Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:
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And COMPASS?  That's a very very strange assembler to teach....

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It was the timeshare system the university had for students.  They had
a Cyber 7600 and a Cyber 8600, I only ever had accounts on the 7600. 
But since it was the system they used, Compass (I'd forgotten that
name, but that was it) was the assembler.

gatech used the Cybers to teach an emulated assembler... first they used
Donald Knuth's idealized machine, then later an 8080 emulator.  Much easier
to teach than a 60-bit assembler with pipeline issues.
--scott
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