in reply to Re^3: Assembly languagein thread Assembly language
"most assembly languages can be used universally with any operating system, as the language provides access to all the real capabilities of the processor, upon which all system call mechanisms ultimately rest. In contrast to assembly languages, most high-level programming languages are generally portable across multiple architectures but require interpreting or compiling, a much more complicated task than assembling."
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6859348/how-do-assembly-languages-depend-on-operating-systems
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