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From: 2hnemarrow@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: HLL v ASSEMBLYREAD/NEXT
Message-ID: <1991Apr19.140237.29843@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 19 Apr 91 19:02:36 GMT
References: <3360@kluge.fiu.edu>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <3360@kluge.fiu.edu>, acmfiu@serss0.fiu.edu (ACMFIU) writes:

> Second, Assmbly(-er) Languages are machine-specific, and give surprising
> little understanding about machines in general.  Sure, you'll learn about
> registers and memory, but everything else is different.   Would you advise
> learning 6502 Assembly(-er), with two registers and an accumulator (and
> correspondingly ugly code), a VAX 9000 with an amazing powerful instruction
> set, or a RISC machine with its simple instructions, pipelines and zillions
> of registers?

Actually, that's a very good reason to start with 6502 assembly.  It's a very
basic processor with only a few registers from which you can get a much better
understanding of what is fundamentally going on in your computer's innerds.

(Notice I copied less than 120 lines of quote for my three.)


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