That's fair enough, but it doesn't seem to be the most useful that it can be then. Low level to me could mean that we control all the details. But modern proces

That's fair enough, but it doesn't seem to be the most useful that it can be then. Low level to me could mean that we control all the details. But modern processors have microcode between transistors and the x86 machine code. And we can't control all that memory stuff. But those aren't abstractions that we can treat as black boxes, we need to know them and how to code taking them into account without actually having control inside the black box.