>Can confirm: After turning it on, we would enter the magic three binary instructions
that's not quite confirmation that assembly is source code
that's not quite confirmation that assembly is source code
If you don’t feel that toggling the binary 16-bit words into RAM demonstrates that binary is what actually runs on the hardware, and that assembly is source code for a binary, well ok. I find it persuasive.
machine code is a language.
they are isomorphic, but different. assembly language (source) converts to machine code (destination).
assembly is... source. code.
machine language is not, unless you consider vliw or microcode, useful to think about but doesn't extend the analogy already in place.
I never said otherwise. I think we're talking past each other, so I'm out.