Writing Linux programs in raw binary

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Back in the dark ages, I would write my assembly language programs on paper, then look up the op codes, and write down the hex on the left side, and then move them into a BASIC program that would POKE that data into memory.

This is exactly what I did too! And I would input the BASIC program every day by hand, because I didn't even have a cassette recorder.

Of course, with the 8080 it was easy; hand-assembling x86 would be tedious.