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Indeed and even more... The entire GEOS operating system, gui/windowing system, application suite, and the vast majority of the rest of the apps were written in

by johnm 14y ago

Indeed and even more... The entire GEOS operating system, gui/windowing system, application suite, and the vast majority of the rest of the apps were written in 8086 assembly language and ran on an original IBM PC.

gaius 14y ago
Even business apps on mainframes were written in assembler... In fact a quick Google shows they still are! http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/hlasm/library.html?S_CMP=rnav http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/hlasm/library.html?S...
- Someone 14y ago
  There are a few niches where new code is written in assembler (numerical code, parts of standard libraries), but in general, I think 'maintained' is a better word to use.