Re: assembly language and reverse engineering

cr88192 wrote:

one would be better off learning assembly on linux than they would be on
DOS.
anymore, about the only real use for real mode is for getting into protected
mode...

Why does this myth never die? Please explain what you can learn
in Windows assembly programming what you can't learn when doing
assembly programming in DOS (and we are not speaking about the
Windows API but about assembly programming). Assembly programming
means to generate an instruction stream for the CPU and not for
the OS. And the CPU is the very same whether you use Windows, Linux
or DOS as an OS.
.

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