Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)

["Really" <barryem@yahoo.com>]

"Scott Alfter" <salfter@salfter.dyndns.org> wrote in message
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>
> For a more concrete example, consider this:
>
>     LDA  #$C1
>     JSR  $FDED
>
> On an Apple II, this assembly-language snippet will write an "A"
to the
> display.  Specific instructions are given to the processor (load
a register
> with a constant and call a subroutine at some address in ROM),
which are
> carried out the same way every time.  Now consider this:
>
> <p style="text-align: center">
> Here's some normal text and some <i>text we want displayed as
italic</i>.
>
> Depending on browser capabilities, you'll get different results.
Any
> browser should at least display the text, but the tags are little
more than
> suggestions.  A browser that doesn't grok CSS will blow right
past the style
> attribute and leave the text left-justified instead of centered.
A browser
> (such as Lynx) that works in text mode might underline text that
is flagged
> as italic.  A browser that converts its input to speech will use
some
> alternate means of representing different tags.

Depending on the current mode, 80x24 or 40x24 or whatever
possibilities the Apple presents (it's been a long time) you'll get
different results with the Apple, too.