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Visible memory - useful indeed. As a newly minted mainframe engineer at IBM I worked with a guy who could read from punched paper tape by eye. It was most impre

• tomcam 11y ago
  I worked with Tim Paterson (creator of MS-DOS) when I worked on the Visual Basic team at Microsoft. When he worked on code generation he just read hex dumps, not disassembly, because it was faster for him.
  • ams6110 11y ago
    It doesn't take that long to learn when you have to do it. When I had to write an assembler as an undergrad project I became pretty much able to read 6809 machine code directly.
    • tomcam 11y ago
      32-bit instruction set was much bigger with many more addressing modes