RFG clarifies its clarification

Analyst firm Robert Frances Group is doing a lot of clarifications. Last month Hewlett-Packard announced that 250 mainframe users had migrated to Itanium in the last two...
Debugging Tip: The error is probably in your code

One of the answers to Robert Crawford's first Assembler quiz included this story from Bruce Roy at the University of Connecticut: I can’t remember who complained but I...
Wordles: System z10, Superdome, Sun M9000

At a site called Wordle, you can input a text document and out comes what Wordle calls a "word cloud." It is basically a visual representation of the text document, with the most often used words represented larger and the least often used words represented...
Crawford’s Mainframe Assembler Quiz, answers and part 2

In his October mainframe column, columnist Robert Crawford asked what commonly used Assembler instruction can be used to add three numbers together and place the answer in a fourth location. The answer is Load Address (LA). Below is Crawford's answer and the next Assembler Quiz. Most...