At 40+ you are pretty much unemployable

[BrilloPad]

That's cos your older than me.

When I've reached your age I will be able to spell to.

I won't have grey "highlights" though as I don't have any children or an ex-wife to stress me out.

true - but you post here. that might well send you

[KathyWoolfe]

I usually just ask people to tell me what IEFBR15 (sic) does.

IEFBR14

[Churchill]

IEFBR14

mov ax,4c00
int 21

[bogeyman]

mov ax,4c00
int 21

No, old dog.

XR 15,15
BR 14

Actually IBM had to patch IEFBR14, twice!

[expat]

IEFBR14

IEFBR15 (sic)

[darmstadt]

Groan! As soon as someone mentions mainframes, all the dinosaurs come lumbering out

We've got a number of fit young dinosaurs working here, in fact a lot fitter than lumbering Windoze weenies...

http://znextgen.org/

[bogeyman]

We've got a number of fit young dinosaurs working here, in fact a lot fitter than lumbering Windoze weenies...

http://znextgen.org/

Yep. Mainframe people are sexy. They're the party people, unlike the Windows and UNIX geeks who smell and can't dance.

[Marina]

We've got a number of fit young dinosaurs working here, in fact a lot fitter than lumbering Windoze weenies...

http://znextgen.org/

I guess "IEFBR15 (sic)" must be the muffled noise a mobile phone makes when it's buried in a giant pile of mainframe assembler, and some poor sod has to roll up their sleeves and find the thing among all the carp before the dinosaur mainframe coder shows up again.

[expat]

I guess "IEFBR15 (sic)" must be the muffled noise a mobile phone makes when it's buried in a giant pile of mainframe assembler, and some poor sod has to roll up their sleeves and find the thing among all the carp before the dinosaur mainframe coder shows up again.

Old mainframe joke. The real IEFBR14 is a null program, named after its one real instruction, BR 14 which branches back to the calling program. By convention, Register 14 is set on entry to a (sub)program to the return address. Register 15 is set to the subprogram entry point - so IEFBR15 would branch back to the start and loop forever.

I once got a job with Amdahl in California on the strength of laughing at that.

[bogeyman]

Old mainframe joke. The real IEFBR14 is a null program, named after its one real instruction, BR 14 which branches back to the calling program. By convention, Register 14 is set on entry to a (sub)program to the return address. Register 15 is set to the subprogram entry point - so IEFBR15 would branch back to the start and loop forever.

I once got a job with Amdahl in California on the strength of laughing at that.

God, how we laughed