Linux founder tells Intel to stop inventing 'magic instructions'and 'start fixing real problems'
nospam wrote:
J. P. Gilliver wrote:
startled when I spoke to a young computing graduate, to
find he'd never done any assembler.
there is no need for assembler anymore, except in very rare
circumstances.
I know that *I* would have a much poorer understanding of how computers
work if I hadn't cut my teeth with assembler (and BASIC) on 8 bit micros.
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