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Old 02-16-2006, 04:21 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Assembly code doesn't refer to a specific language. Its just a class of languages that are a human readable version of the underlying binary opcodes.

Different processor architectures have different assembly codes.

X86 assembly is different than PowerPC assembly is different than MIPS assembly etc etc.
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