HyperHacker Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 Just curious if anyone knew how Assembly (ASM) got its name? It's certainly an unusual name. I can't seem to find much on Google, only stuff about label names or other things also called ASM/assembly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted December 8, 2005 Share Posted December 8, 2005 Because in the early days, programmers coding in Asm would manually look up the sequence opcodes for each instruction in a table and "assemble" an instruction, one at a time.Now, an Assembler does that task. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zivan56 Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 FYI, ASM means Abstract State Machine, which is a diagram of how a device/cpu switches between different states and IO sequences. The proper name today is "assembly language." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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