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1992-me hates the author. Coming from 68k assembly, x86 was a nightmare. And together with the ridiculous number of registers, segments made up a huge chunk of
by deepsummer 4mo ago
1992-me hates the author. Coming from 68k assembly, x86 was a nightmare. And together with the ridiculous number of registers, segments made up a huge chunk of that horrible experience.
- billpg 4mo ago1992-author (me) is wondering if he'll ever get a girlfriend. (And I completely agree.)
- projektfu 4mo agoWhat? It has 4 times as many general purpose registers as you'd ever need, right? /s
- forinti 4mo agoI knew a bit of 6502 assembly, so I was happy just to have more RAM and more registers. Looking back, the simplicity of the instruction set seems quaint next to the thousands of instructions we have today.