As a teenager I spent 1000’s of hours pouring over 6502 listings completely oblivious to assembly language's invention 30 years earlier. We don’t hear enough about the pioneers of digital (or indeed analogue) computing.

RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language

#computing #history #kathleenBooth #contractedNotation

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

Searched, didn't find it. Deserves her own hashtag in these parts, even if belatedly: #KathleenBooth

One of the better obits: it includes some fun references: https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/29/kathleen_booth_obit/

Look no further for the embodiment of a transcendent personality.

Vale #KathleenBooth, the inventor of Assembly Language, a low-level #programming language used to communicate granular instructions to hardware. She was 100. You use Assembly Language every time you use a computer or phone.

Via @[email protected] for @theregister

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

Muere a los 100 años de edad Kathleen Booth, autora del primer lenguaje ensamblador

https://www.microsiervos.com/archivo/ordenadores/muerte-kathleen-booth-inventora-primer-lenguaje-ensamblador.html

#obituario #KathleenBooth

“RIP: Kathleen Booth, The Inventor Of Assembly Language”, The Register (https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/29/kathleen_booth_obit/).

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33384150

#KathleenBooth #RIP #Obituary #ComputerHistory #ARC #AssemblyLanguage #WomenInTech #Pioneer #UK #Canada

RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language – Builder and programmer of the ARC and SEC turned 100 this year

https://gadgeteer.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/kathleen-booth.jpg Professor Kathleen Booth, one of the last of the early British computing pioneers, has died. She was 100. In 1950, Kathleen and Andrew married, the same year that she got a PhD in applied mathematics, […]

https://gadgeteer.co.za/rip-kathleen-booth-the-inventor-of-assembly-language-builder-and-programmer-of-the-arc-and-sec-turned-100-this-year/

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