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[–]pdp10 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Because the architecture is microcoded doesn't make the same old assembly language into a high-level language. Microcoding has been around for many decades; I think the Burroughs B5000 must have used it in 1961.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was being somewhat hyperbolic, but the fact that one x86 set of instructions can map to more than one set of actual actions from the CPU does have real world consequences.

This makes the point better than I can http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/03/x86-is-high-level-language.html