who invented asm?

sunnyl · Mar 3rd, 2001, 10:48 PM

Just a question, who invented ASM?

Mar 11th, 2001, 04:34 PM

Whoever invented the chip that you are programming for.

Z.

Mar 12th, 2001, 12:02 AM

ok........maybe i should rephrase my question, who invented the concept of hex/asm over machine code?

Mar 12th, 2001, 03:18 AM

I dont think it was one man who created it, i think it was more of a group effort.

**Sam Finch** · Mar 13th, 2001, 11:25 AM

I think lot's of different companies had the idea at roughly the same time. My mum used to work as a programmer for Kodak back in the good old days before 8 bit processers and keyboards. Rather than have the coders do the punch cards themselves they used to write down the code on paper and give it to punch card operators, as this was just a string of 1s and 0s loads of mistakes were made. In those days debuggers used to get paid a fortune because it was so hard to debug a string of 1s and 0s. so to make their jobs easier Hex was used and eventually a primative assembley language with meaningful words for instructions. It was still all done on pen and paper, but it cut debugging costs no end.

Mar 17th, 2001, 02:17 PM

All I know is that it was developed at Stanford University, but I don't know who did it.

**yancy** · Oct 15th, 2002, 10:19 AM

check out the book 'The Philosophical Programmer: Reflections on the Moth in the Machine'
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...65445?v=glance

it gives a pretty good idea as to how and why computers are the way they are today, as well as where asm came from.

**AirScape17** · Oct 15th, 2002, 02:37 PM

Don't know if this has much relevence to asm, but wasn't it one Mark Zbikowski (sp?) who had something to do with creating the EXE format (so to speak)? Hence the 'MZ' EXE file prefix.

**CornedBee** · Oct 16th, 2002, 10:59 AM

The EXE file format?

I know of at least 4 exe formats alone, I'm sure there are many others.

**packetVB** · Nov 27th, 2002, 07:38 AM

Wasnt that Bill G.
I thought he invented asm, internet, computer, tcp/ip and etc.etc.etc.

**CornedBee** · Nov 27th, 2002, 01:55 PM

**PT Exorcist** · Nov 27th, 2002, 07:40 PM

no way! bill g just made software..it didnt invent nothing of that...and also windows isnt anything invented by him..the tecnologie was already invented by someone elsehe just used it lol

**CornedBee** · Nov 28th, 2002, 11:03 AM

Bah, Bill G invented the computer, the light bulb and the wheel. Believe me!

**made_of_asp** · Jan 3rd, 2003, 07:05 AM

He must be ten thousant year old.

From wheel to the computer....

**CornedBee** · Jan 3rd, 2003, 10:19 AM

No, he invented cloning too and was simply clones whenever he got old.

**Daok** · Jan 7th, 2003, 06:33 PM

http://asmhistory.cjb.net/

**Mortivan** · May 23rd, 2003, 09:08 AM

Al Gore invented the internet. Remember?!

**klopeks** · May 28th, 2003, 11:14 PM

Originally posted by packetVB
Wasnt that Bill G.
I thought he invented asm, internet, computer, tcp/ip and etc.etc.etc.

LOL, BILL GATUS Used ASM to make Windoze , and a Little C++. why did he make VB? LOL

**Mortivan** · May 28th, 2003, 11:27 PM

LOL, BILL GATUS Used ASM to make Windoze , and a Little C++. why did he make VB? LOL

He didn't. Alan Cooper did. It was just another application Bill bought and had modified.

**CornedBee** · May 29th, 2003, 12:59 PM

I think at the time when the original Windows was written (Win 1.0) C++ didn't exist at all. They used C.

**Darkwraith** · Jun 20th, 2003, 07:38 PM

Why not Smalltalk or Forth?

**Maven** · Jun 20th, 2003, 09:04 PM

IBM probably intoduced the world to ASM. It was either them or the government.

**Memnoch1207** · Jun 20th, 2003, 10:54 PM

Bill G. sold his soul to me...so he could live in a big house, marry an ugly woman and be king of the geeks!...I think I got screwed on the deal!

**CornedBee** · Jun 22nd, 2003, 06:03 AM

bill ever had a sould

**abcdefg** · Nov 2nd, 2003, 01:46 PM

I think at&t labs came up with it.

**Darkwraith** · Nov 3rd, 2003, 10:10 AM

You have to define what you men by who invented assembler. Are you referring to the concept of assembler opposed to machine code, or are you referring to a particular instruction set.

**wossname** · Nov 25th, 2003, 05:17 AM

Didn't ASM come out just after the first digital stored program computers...

It was devised primarily because of the need to produce the early Donkey Kong platformers, pop-up ads and Spacewars. Windows '55 was written in ASM too.

**Darkwraith** · Nov 25th, 2003, 12:05 PM

Windows '55 ???

**CornedBee** · Nov 25th, 2003, 12:21 PM

Yeah, the 1-bit graphical OS

**brad jones** · Nov 26th, 2003, 07:31 AM

I'm closing this thread. I believe the initial question was somewhat serious and worth discussion; however, too many of the post in this thread belong in chit chat. If there is still interest in discussing the history of assembly, please start a new thread. Those of you posting off topic chatter, please use the chit chat forum.

Thanks,

Brad!

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