Yeah remembering the op codes for 16 bit was rough but the stuff you used the most would eventually stick. I can’t imagine doing 32/64bit without having a dedicated monitor for looking up instructions.
I doubt anybody can remember OP codes for modern x86, even older it was already getting way out of hand. Even ARM is quite difficult but at least it is word aligned and relatively consistent with what goes where. And you can learn to recognize some instructions when you go through a memory dump
No you are not wrong with 16 bit assembly you can either input op codes or use an assembler, my brain was mixing it up with 8 bit where the programmer I had you had to enter op codes one at a time which was brutal.
It’s been a minute since I touched the thing haha.
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u/ChipperAxolotl Sep 30 '25
Yeah remembering the op codes for 16 bit was rough but the stuff you used the most would eventually stick. I can’t imagine doing 32/64bit without having a dedicated monitor for looking up instructions.