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Re:Some Assembly Required: An approachable introduction to a... by DantesKite on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @12:44PM (#31910015)
What a remarkable group of people you are.

Also I didn’t realize Rollercoaster Tycoon was primarily written in Assembly. That’s nuts.

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Re:Some Assembly Required: An approachable introduction to a... by criddell on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @01:53PM (#31910809)
Steve Gibson (grc.com) uses assembly for most (all?) of the software he distributes.

For example, his DNS Nameserver Benchmarking utility[1] is 160 KB and when you download it, it's a single uncompressed executable and has a decent win32 UI. It will run any version of Windows going back to Windows 95.

Could you even run a mid-90's era macOS or KDE+Linux executable on a current Mac or Linux machine? (I don't think Gnome even existed yet).

[1]: https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm

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