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From: Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
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Subject: Re: Linux founder tells Intel to stop inventing 'magic instructions' and 'start fixing real problems'
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2020 17:30:52 +0100
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nospam wrote:

> Andy Burns wrote:
> 
>> I know that *I* would have a much poorer understanding of how computers
>> work if I hadn't cut my teeth with assembler (and BASIC) on 8 bit micros.
> 
> that doesn't give you a good understanding about modern processors,
> which are far more complex than those 8-bit micros.

But it was a good foundation from where to keep up with progress to 
newer processors, and higher level languages.

I just think if you chuck e.g. an rPi at a youngster today they won't 
get the same understanding of it from logic gates upwards ...