Same as me, 16 years as well.  Was this kind of assignment in vogue at the time, discussed between professors &#x2F; grad students at academic conferences?<p>My assignment involved writing assembly on some virtual machine with a weird byte&#x2F;word size and dozens of addressing modes, as well as a (virtual) tape device.  I think it was called CUSP but I can&#x27;t find any references for it now.