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Re:Why xor eax, eax? by bombcar on Monday December 01, 2025 @02:31PM (#46111958)
People don't realize that in the era of dinosaurs where MASM ruled and assembly walked the earth, there basically WEREN'T CEOs who didn't know the details, because all the companies doing this stuff were pretty small at the time (and the CEO may have been writing it himself a few years before).
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Re:Why xor eax, eax? by Analemma_ on Monday December 01, 2025 @03:18PM (#46112614)
There was a time when Bill Gates wrote code for Microsoft, and he was actually quite good at it.
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Re:Why xor eax, eax? by nomel on Monday December 01, 2025 @04:39PM (#46113605)
Not sure why this was voted down. He was very technical, especially for the time: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/6/7/bill-gates-reuni...
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Re:Why xor eax, eax? by eru on Monday December 01, 2025 @09:28PM (#46116671)
He also wrote and published a paper on pancake sorting.
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Re:Why xor eax, eax? by assimpleaspossi on Monday December 01, 2025 @07:49PM (#46115846)
In the era of dinosaurs, neither MASM nor Windows existed but we still did assembly or micro-coding (machine coding) or flipped switches.
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Re:Why xor eax, eax? by bombcar on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @12:49AM (#46118041)
Pre-MASM Dinos probably weren't doing xor ax, ax.
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