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by pjmlp 152 days ago
Yet it is one in itself, otherwise UNIX would still be written in Assembly.
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seanw444 152 days ago
Assembly itself is an abstraction. UNIX should have been written in machine code.
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pjmlp 152 days ago
It was until version 4, when the C rewrite took place as it wasn't fun to keep writing it in Assembly.
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seanw444 152 days ago
Assembly code != machine code
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pjmlp 151 days ago
Depends if you have an Assembler at hand, or a plain hexdump monitor, hopefully with a checksum entry on each row.
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