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Article #623309Re: Quantity of machine code programmers and quantity of Assembly programmers
From: Jon Elson
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 19:02
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 19:02
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John Levine wrote: > Having spent a certain amount of time coding for the minimal highly > logical PDP-8, with an instruction set so small you could memorize it > (including the binary values) I'll take the x86 any day. What it may > lack in symmetry it makes up in ability to get stuff done. > The PDP-8 was a ghastly horror. But, then, all 12-bit machines had to be so stripped down as to be pretty horrible. They did about the best they could with just TWELVE bits to work with. Jon
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