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From: Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi>
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Subject: Re: Is everyone here faking that they know anything about the x86 language?
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2024 10:00:15 +0300
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On 2024-08-07 13:07:06 +0000, olcott said:

> On 8/7/2024 1:48 AM, Mikko wrote:
>> On 2024-08-05 15:16:27 +0000, olcott said:
>> 
>>> I have been working in the x86 language back when my work
>>> computer at the US Army corps of engineers was an IBM PC
>>> with an 8088 processor, 512K of RAM and dual floppy drives.
>>> 
>>> I was creating dBASE III systems on this computer. This was
>>> before the 8086 processor even existed thus the name x86
>>> language did not yet exist.
>> 
>> Intel 8088 is a variant of 8086 for less expensive computers.
>> Intel 8086 already exsted when the first 8088 computers were
>> sold. Later Intel develped 80188, 80186, and other processors
>> that cold run programs that were written or compiled for 8086,
>> so someone coined the term x86 for the family.
>> 
> 
> Can you write programs in this language?
> I have written many interrupt intercept TSR
> programs in the 8088 versions of the language.
> I was doing my own time slicing back in 1987.

I have done that tor 8088 and some other poocessors but not
recently so my skills may be rusty. Only rarely there is any
need for machine language programming.

-- 
Mikko