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	krisse	2009-08-31 , 13:24
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Originally Posted by attila77

Today, the OS has an increasingly important role and the applications are less-and-less kingdoms of their own that do as they please.

...so in a way modern applications are more like extensions of the OS rather than self-contained programs?

Also, with the complexity of games and power of HW increasing, low level programming is used less and less,

Yeah, that makes sense. Machine code seemed to be used the most on machines with the least resources, to squeeze every last drop of performance out.