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Comment by fouc

Interesting, the video mentions that the BIOS, Firmware, and Bootloaders used to be heavily implemented in assembly, and then nowadays it is mostly C with a sprinkling of assembly.

What's the chance this is also due to less limitations in the hardware, rather than C compiler achieving "parity" ?

parent fouc 7 years ago

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