What was nice about C then was that, based on my study of CPUs at the time, you could pretty much get your head around what the CPU was doing. So you could lear

What was nice about C then was that, based on my study of CPUs at the time, you could pretty much get your head around what the CPU was doing. So you could learn the instructions (C) and the machine following them (the CPU). When I got to modern CPUs it's so complex my eyes glazed over reading the explanation and I gave up trying to understand them.