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		assimpleaspossi 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why xor eax, eax? In the era of dinosaurs, neither MASM nor Windows existed but we still did assembly or micro-coding (machine coding) or flipped switches.

bombcar 4 days ago [–]

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

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