[MUD-Dev] Mud Languages

[Captain Burrito]

On Fri, 8 Aug 1997 17:37:15 PST8PDT, Greg Munt
<greg at uni-corn.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Maybe I used incorrect terminology. 
>
>5  [ PROBLEM-ORIENTATED LANGUAGE LEVEL ]

Okay, I get that part. What I *don't* get is...

>4  [      ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE LEVEL      ]           
>3  [  OPERATING SYSTEM MACHINE LEVEL   ]
>2  [    CONVENTIONAL MACHINE LEVEL     ]

The "Operating System Machine Level" confuses me. I would take
"Conventional Machine Level" to be the actual opcodes, where each
instruction is a raw hex value rather than a mnemonic. But what exactly
is "Operating System Machine Level"? Do you mean APIs and interrupts? I
don't quite get it.

>1  [      MICROPROGRAMMING LEVEL       ]
>0  [       DIGITAL LOGIC LEVEL         ]

These last two, I grok... you have your usual and, or, nor, nand, xor,
and not which are digital logic; microprogramming, the aggregation of
these into something which can execute the machine language. If I get
this properly, that is.

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 I'm young enough to get involved, too old to see, all the scars 
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