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Hello Bo - 

CA>> 20+ years ago I wrote what became the defacto software
CA>> UART emulation for the Radio Shack Color Computer to allow
CA>> it to do telecom. It was written in ASM. :-) 

BS> Ok.. some serial stuff? 

Yes, "some serial stuff" that no other ASM programmer could
match in 3 years of effort with dozens trying to. That's all I
did just that and nothing more. 

BS>>> a assembler is translation to machine code (0 and 1), one
BS>>> line of assembler code, is one machine instruction. 

CA>> No, one line of ASM can be several machine instructions,
CA>> not just one. 

BS> That's right, i thought of the micro code. 

I thought of the correct answer. 

BS>>> Somebody call assembler for Symbolic Machinecode. 

CA>> ASM is a language that must be interpreted for the
CA>> machine, yes. 

CA>> 

BS> And i can't be runed on other architectures. 

The binaries are machine specific, yes. 

There are cross-compilers that will generate code for other
architectures with some manual intervention to make it machine
specific but that isn't done as often anymore. 

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