I've been searching around the site, looking at the different types of coding, and come accross Assembly. This is one of the most complicating code ive seen yet and was just wondering what is it's most common use?
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Jump to Posthave u guys tried menuetn os?
a whole os in assembly. its got a GUI and is under 5 meg
Jump to Postwhy no one writes anything but trivial programs in assembly language.
I assure you the OS/2 kernel, KBD, MOU, VIO, and base drivers code was non-trivial. It was all done in assembler.
In the 1.X and GA 2.0 version the PM graphics engine was assembler as well. The VGA …
Jump to PostThis is why I use Assembly for all my programming needs
I suspect you are writing rather small systems programs, things most end-users will not see.
If one writes 'real' applications and not toys is sure that it is the other way round. I am wondering, what kind of applications …
Jump to PostI suspect you are writing rather small systems programs, things most end-users will not see.
I can write a complete working non-trivial MS-Windows application in about 5 minutes with Visual Studio 2005 (actually, the IDE will generate it). How many days/weeks/years does it take you to write the same application …
Jump to Postthey'll throw extra hardware at it
...and when that hardware doesn't exist?
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