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Harvard Mark I? Not sure why people think programming started with Z80.
by GoblinSlayer 6mo ago
Harvard Mark I? Not sure why people think programming started with Z80.
- flohofwoe 6mo agoMy WW2-era assembly is a bit rusty, but I don't think the Harvard Mark 1 had bitwise logical operations?
- bonzini 6mo agoThe article is about x86, and x86 assembly is mostly a superset of 8080 (which is why machine language numbers registers as AX/CX/DX/BX, matching roughly the function of A/BC/DE/HL on the 8080—in particular with respect to BX and HL being last).
- GoblinSlayer 6mo agoSo you say x86 wasn't made ex nihilo, but evolved from previous designs? When this evolution began? 8080 followed 8008, code for which was written in macro-11 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11_architecture#Example_code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11_architecture#Example_co...