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> Well, he must have used some low-level methods too to operate the hardware of #16. Thus the programming of #16 must also contain (lots of) assembly I got int
by kalleboo 4y ago
> Well, he must have used some low-level methods too to operate the hardware of #16. Thus the programming of #16 must also contain (lots of) assembly
I got into computers just as BASIC computers went obsolete so I could be wrong, but couldn't it just have been a heck of a lot of PEEK and POKE statements?
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoYeah, depending on your hardware and language and language extensions it should be possible to drive a lot of hardware directly from a high level language. Memory mapped hardware would allow peek/poke drivers, but there's nothing preventing someone adding, say, a PORT_RAW_OUT command. And even in the worst case, maybe you use a little asm at the bottom of the stack but you only need a tiny bit in a wrapper function.