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Let's assume the x86 octal layout is the pinnacle of enlightenment and the 68k instructions were assigned by rolling a 65536-sided die. So what? I don't write
by ksherlock 9y ago
Let's assume the x86 octal layout is the pinnacle of enlightenment and the 68k instructions were assigned by rolling a 65536-sided die. So what? I don't write my assembly using DIP switches, I write my assembly using mnemonics.
- wolfgke 9y ago> I don't write my assembly using DIP switches, I write my assembly using mnemonics. In other words: Not the x86 instruction set is bad, but the common assembly language(s) (there is Intel and AT&T syntax) that are used to describe it.