Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Brian Gregory Newsgroups: alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips Subject: Re: Linux founder tells Intel to stop inventing 'magic instructions' and 'start fixing real problems' Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2020 02:18:15 +0100 Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <1q8s3dvb888t.dlg@v.nguard.lh> <1rqenk95m4on0.dlg@v.nguard.lh> <170720201231335465%nospam@nospam.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 7l/nF+DXk7r81hXKxAfn0gkt5LZYMNrz0N4iQAIBGp8Bq5+SXW Cancel-Lock: sha1:pcrg119sB3p3UP/cSDJpXIcjaJg= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 In-Reply-To: <170720201231335465%nospam@nospam.invalid> Content-Language: en-GB Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.os.windows-10:117770 comp.sys.intel:704 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips:2619 On 17/07/2020 17:31, nospam wrote: > In article , J. P. Gilliver (John) > wrote: > >> I remember - I _think_ it was in the last decade, but it might have been >> more - being startled when I spoke to a young computing graduate, to >> find he'd never done any assembler. At that time, after my initial >> double-take, I thought to myself: the field is big enough, that there'll >> be plenty of room for him, and in practice he'll probably never have any >> trouble finding interesting and well-paid employment. > > there is no need for assembler anymore, except in very rare > circumstances. > On PCs maybe. I bet some embedded stuff for ultra cheap mass market stuff is still done in assember, or something only very slightly higher level. -- Brian Gregory (in England).