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Indeed and even more... The entire GEOS operating system, gui/windowing system, application suite, and the vast majority of the rest of the apps were written in 8086 assembly language and ran on an original IBM PC.


Even business apps on mainframes were written in assembler... In fact a quick Google shows they still are! http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/hlasm/library.html?S...


There are a few niches where new code is written in assembler (numerical code, parts of standard libraries), but in general, I think 'maintained' is a better word to use.




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