James Grabham wrote:
> OK, so a couple of nights ago, someone from my LUG gave me a few old-ish
> books ('90s), anyway, theres a beginers guide to Assembly Language
> there. I started reading, and the first 3 chapters are just about
> Computer Science, and It's really interesting, Im learning about octal
> and hex, and other maths stuff as well. Id always though low-level
> stuff would be really boring... guess I was wrong.
I officially retired from machine code when they switched from 8-bit to
16-bit. With 8-bit, I could actually memorise then entire 6502
instruction set in my head, by the numbers (eg. 96 = return from
subroutine). With 16-bit, it was just far too complicated for the whole
thing to stick in my head in one go!
Low-level stuff is really interesting, but the problem is these days
everything is built library on top of another (eg. X-Windows, Gnome)
that it is almost impossible to achieve anything in machine code.
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