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Learning Assembly for Fun, Performance and Profit
Why take an interest in assembly language and which to learn?
A recent Substack post advocating learning assembly language for the venerable, but well loved, 6502 as a first step garnered over 240 ‘upvotes’ and more than 290 comments on Hacker News. It became the CPU of choice for the first generation of computers with WIMP (Windows, Icon, Mouse, Pointer) user interfaces such as the first Macintosh, Atari ST and the Commodore Amiga. However, the ability to move from the simple integer core of RV32 to a much more sophisticated modern 64-bit application processor, means that RISC-V provides a unique path for someone learning assembly for the first time.
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