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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).




There was a time when Bill Gates wrote code for Microsoft, and he was actually quite good at it.

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...

He also wrote and published a paper on pancake sorting.

In the era of dinosaurs, neither MASM nor Windows existed but we still did assembly or micro-coding (machine coding) or flipped switches.

Pre-MASM Dinos probably weren't doing xor ax, ax.



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