I sometimes wonder whether assembly code would even be considered "scary" today if IBM had picked the Motorola 68000 instead of the Intel 8088 for their PC.
The x86 instruction set was a cobbled-together mess from day one, while 68k assembly coding was pure joy because of its elegant and consistent instruction set.
The x86 instruction set was a cobbled-together mess from day one, while 68k assembly coding was pure joy because of its elegant and consistent instruction set.