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RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language

From August Abolins@618:250/1.9 to All on Wed Dec 14 19:23:00 2022

RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language

https://bbs.lc/Fi3b1

OR..

https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/29/kathleen_booth_obit/

You can try out the APE(X)C in the MESS emulator. https://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/misc/mess.html

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From Arelor@618:250/24 to August Abolins on Fri Dec 16 04:09:16 2022

Re: RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language
By: August Abolins to All on Wed Dec 14 2022 07:23 pm

RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language

https://bbs.lc/Fi3b1

OR..

https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/29/kathleen_booth_obit/

You can try out the APE(X)C in the MESS emulator. https://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/misc/mess.html

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The news seem to be a bit late. Thanks anyways.

As far as I am reading, it all came from an attempt to implement von Neumann's computer model, which must have been a daunting task at the time.

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