ASM Question

[HyperHacker]

Just curious if anyone knew how Assembly (ASM) got its name? It's certainly an unusual name. I can't seem to find much on Google, only stuff about label names or other things also called ASM/assembly.

[LLXX]

Because in the early days, programmers coding in Asm would manually look up the sequence opcodes for each instruction in a table and "assemble" an instruction, one at a time.

Now, an Assembler does that task.

[zivan56]

FYI, ASM means Abstract State Machine, which is a diagram of how a device/cpu switches between different states and IO sequences. The proper name today is "assembly language."