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'We coded day and night for the two months to create the software we had said already existed': The history of Microsoft reminds me how far we've come in just 50 years (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/retrocomputing

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[–] eutampieri@feddit.it 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes!

[–] bunkyprewster@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I didn't realize assembly had named variables.

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Assembly has variables. You can label locations in memory, then move them onto registers in order to perform operations.