Re: Early-2014 Macbook Air and Linux Mint Cinnamon
The Natural Philosopher <[email protected]>
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On 24/06/2026 20:42, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > I liked the Intel mnemonics better; they gave a clue as > to the operation of the instruction, which appealed to low-level > dweebs like me. I'm sure the CS weenies liked Zilog's mnemonics > better, where every data movement instruction seemed to be some > form of LD. We learnt was what necessary to get the assembler to assemble ,machine code. No one gave a shit about 'mnemonics' We left that argument to computer scientists who couldn't write code. Kept them off the micros -- You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. Al Capone