Yes, instruction sets these days are significantly more useful. To do recursion in those old machines, one would need to build your own stack mechanism, but th

Yes, instruction sets these days are significantly more useful. To do recursion in those old machines, one would need to build your own stack mechanism, but there would still be issues to take care of, as there was no native way to use anything but global storage. Having lived through those times, I don't wish them on anyone.