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		microcolonel on Nov 6, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Broadcom Offers $105B for Qualcomm in Landmark Dea... That is generally true, but it is more useful than machine code toward that end.

monocasa on Nov 6, 2017 [–]

Not really. You'd have to go through the same motions. Either way it'd end up looking like later versions of MACRO-11 which treated PDP-11 assembly as a full language to be compiled for other architectures rather than just an assembler.

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