* Eris Discordia ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> That is probably because assembly was never intended for moving from one
> platform to another all the time, but for squeezing the most out of a
> given platform whose nooks and crannies you ken well.
Nah, that's only what the intel assembler is for. Originally, assembly
language was devised for not having to type in machine opcodes directly.
With the advent of high level programming laguages its main merit became the
ability to write those bits of operating system code that just cannot be
written in a high level language. (Research) Unix was influential in that
regard and showed that those parts are really small (and should be).
Martin
