Yet it is one in itself, otherwise UNIX would still be written in Assembly.

seanw444 · 2026-01-15T17:51:28 1768499488

Assembly itself is an abstraction. UNIX should have been written in machine code.

pjmlp · 2026-01-15T18:30:45 1768501845

It was until version 4, when the C rewrite took place as it wasn't fun to keep writing it in Assembly.

seanw444 · 2026-01-15T21:41:32 1768513292

Assembly code != machine code

pjmlp · 2026-01-15T22:58:09 1768517889

Depends if you have an Assembler at hand, or a plain hexdump monitor, hopefully with a checksum entry on each row.