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pjmlptoday at 9:57 AM2 repliesview on HN

Assembly was never portable, or do you think 6502 on Apple would work out of the box in a Gameboy or C64?


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whobretoday at 10:37 AM

In 1981, one could write a z80 assembly program for cp/m and it would run on thousands of different computer models.

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foldrtoday at 10:40 AM

The article is perfectly clear:

> The good news is that it is very easy to write assembly which targets Apple’s computers as well as the other 64-bit ARM devices running operating systems other than Darwin.

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