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Episode 95: How Computers Work Part V - Assembly Language and the Operating System

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How to Write a Programmable Programming Language Into a Machine Code

In the early days, people did use to code in machine code. But it's basically not done any more because it's extremely cumbersome. To make it easier, an abstraction known as assembly language was developed. Each instruct o, each line in an assembly language programme, corresponds to a single machine instruction. There are many commonalities across instruction sets but they will be different depending on exactly what instructions are in that given i s a. The memory handling of when the variable is stored is handled automatically by the assemble.

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