Re: Instr()

On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 17:50:29 +0100, "Mike Williams"
<mikea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
in <ej9xl5e1HHA.484@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


I'd guess that you are saying that because you've never actually written
machine code. Try turning off your computer and writing a machine code
routine with a pencil and a little notebook in such a way that the numbers
you come up with will work and perform your desired task if you dump them
straight into memory and point the processor at them and you'll see a very
big difference between machine code and Assembler. Assembler is machine code
for wimps ;-)

And you could also say that machine code is microcode for wimps. :-) I
recall back in the eighties doing 128 bit microcode where all sorts of
stuff was going on in parallel. It was fascinating but I have no desire
to revisit it. Assembler, however was great fun.

---
Stefan Berglund
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