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Article #623275Re: Quantity of machine code programmers and quantity of Assembly programmers
From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 15:36
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 15:36
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"Kerr-Mudd,John" <nots...@invalid.org> writes: >On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:56:03 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) >wrote: > >> Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> writes: >>>On 4/27/2018 9:08 AM, Walter Banks wrote: >> >>>> Since then I know of a single piece of application code written in >>>> assembler that has been released for shipment by a customer. >>>> >>> >>>I know Walter Banks is *not* discussing an x86 processor.... but... >>> >>>People are even more discouraged from learning or using machine or >>>assembly code by the *awful* instruction set of x86 processors. >> >> Nonsense. It's not more awful than IBM 360, HP-3000 or the Univac. >> Have you actually written any 64-bit x86 assembler? This isn't an >> 8086 anymore. >> >> People don't program in assembler because it doesn't make >> sense to do so for anyone other than a handful of kernel >> programmers that need to write the bootstrap code for the >> processor. >> >> > >there are at least 3 people still subscribed to >news:comp.lang.assembler.x86 Yeah, that's the same three who post to alt.os.development about their new version of DOS or OS/2 look-a-like running in segmented 16-bit mode :-)
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