[deepsummer]

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.

[forinti]

I 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.

[billpg]

1992-author (me) is wondering if he'll ever get a girlfriend.

(And I completely agree.)

[projektfu]

What? It has 4 times as many general purpose registers as you'd ever need, right? /s

[deftio]

Agree.. 68k assembly was dreamy compared to 80x86..

[BearOso]

He's referring to accumulator styles, eg. the 6502.