Simply put, assembly programming moves your data byte by byte through hardware registers and memory. What made programming the PDP-11 different was that the minicomputer's design was elegant.

Consistency: The guarantee that memory operations are observed in a coherent and predictable order, reflecting the intended programming semantics.

And once you start talking about memory access, direct or indirect, the individual architectures of the chips demand different assembly languages.

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