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Re: Quantity of machine code programmers and quantity of Assembly programmers

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From: Gareths Downstairs Computer
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:33
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On 27/04/2018 15:25, Charles Richmond wrote:
> 
> I know Walter Banks is *not* discussing an x86 processor....  but...

Sounds like one of the Siemens' processors?


>   So lets
> say that *fewer* people code in assembly language than would code in 
> assembly language...  if the processor had a decent, reasonable, 
> logically devised instruction set.

Yes - ish; the 68000  appeared just too late when the world was
moving en masse onto HLL.
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