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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 13:37:22 +1100
Subject: Re: [OFF-TOPIC] It is true that is impossible write in binary code, the lowest level of programming that you can write is in hex code?
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On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>         "machine code" typically implies an instruction set specific to that
> machine... ALL computers operate in BINARY logic (a bit only holds 0 or 1).
> How you get those bits into the computer is irrelevant.

Bah, those zeroes and ones are just an abstraction! They work in voltages.

Actually, those voltages are just an abstraction. They work in electrons.

Not to mention that electrons are really abstractions too, in their own way...

ChrisA