alt Hacker News1992-me hates the author. Coming from 68k assembly, x86 was a nightmare. And together with the ridiculous number of registers, segments made up a huge chunk of that horrible experience.
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billpg • today at 1:34 PM
1992-author (me) is wondering if he'll ever get a girlfriend.
(And I completely agree.)
projektfu • today at 1:43 PM
What? It has 4 times as many general purpose registers as you'd ever need, right? /s
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I knew a bit of 6502 assembly, so I was happy just to have more RAM and more registers.
Looking back, the simplicity of the instruction set seems quaint next to the thousands of instructions we have today.