> I believe 6502 instruction set is a good first assembly language It was for me. In 1977 I lived in a little cabin in Oregon. I bought an Apple II as a divers

> I believe 6502 instruction set is a good first assembly language It was for me. In 1977 I lived in a little cabin in Oregon. I bought an Apple II as a diversion. Within a year I was working on a program that later became "Apple Writer" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Writer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Writer), written entirely in assembly. Some in this conversation identify 6502 assembly as rather clunky and difficult to use. In retrospect I have to agree, but in 1977 I didn't have a basis for comparison. There were no fast, high-level languages available for the Apple II, so my little program became an Apple product, primarily from the lack of alternatives. Consider this -- Apple Writer lived in 8 kilobytes of RAM, but actually did things. It even had a macro language people used to process address lists. I just boosted my main system to 96 gigabytes of RAM to be able to more easily host DeepSeek locally (I have an RTX 4090). I just realized that's enough RAM to hold almost 12 million copies of Apple Writer. This is all pretty surreal ... but I've had occasion to say that a number of times since 1977.