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... language for the chip manufacturer . PL / M ( Programming Language for Microcom- puters ) would be a so - called high - level language , in contrast to the low- level machine language that was made up of the instruction set of the ...
... language for the chip manufacturer . PL / M ( Programming Language for Microcom- puters ) would be a so - called high - level language , in contrast to the low- level machine language that was made up of the instruction set of the ...
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... language was the native language of the Altair's micro- processor , the Intel 8080. A machine language is a set of commands , in the form of numeric codes , that elicits a response from a computer's CPU . The code causes the CPU to ...
... language was the native language of the Altair's micro- processor , the Intel 8080. A machine language is a set of commands , in the form of numeric codes , that elicits a response from a computer's CPU . The code causes the CPU to ...
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... language John Kemeney and Thomas Kurtz cre- ated was an instant success . Compared with the slow , laborious , and complex process of programming in FORTRAN , the comparable com- puter language in common use at the time , BASIC was a ...
... language John Kemeney and Thomas Kurtz cre- ated was an instant success . Compared with the slow , laborious , and complex process of programming in FORTRAN , the comparable com- puter language in common use at the time , BASIC was a ...
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Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer Paul Freiberger,Michael Swaine No preview available - 2000 |
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