2007-07-21 16:02:52 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
No AL is a category of languages that is as close to machine binary language as it could be but still having some human mnemonics on any kind of microprocessor/microcontroller regardless it's a lowly obsolete Z80 anything to latest Intel Core Quad 64-bit.
People use it when nothing else available to have required performance or simply too new a processor type to have anything else like C, x86 family contains anything 8086 to Pentium 4 16-bit or 32-bit since 386.
2007-07-21 16:18:32 · answer #1 · answered by Andy T 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's based on the architect of the processors, whether it is an 8086, 286, 386, 486 and ect. For quite some time assembly language was based from the 386 processors because they had a second chip called a math co-processor.
Modern chips combined both into one single microprocessor, I believe started with the 486.
2007-07-21 23:11:28 · answer #2 · answered by PCSTech 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋