[greffov]

Wow! That is a bunch of good info!!!

I'm aware assembler will never leave us, how to write a BIOS, driver, OS or anything else without it. But the most developers will never see such things. Think of Java, you don't even have access to your memory like in C. But the world is moving to that kind of abstraction. Use of objects all interfaced.
A developer these days doesn't need to worry about if his PC, Mac, Sun or whatelse has 1, 2 or 8 processors, the "just in time compiler" will do the job for him. The OS will take care of it. OSX's Aqua interface for example is written that way, and it uses unlike windows both processors if you have them available.

This is far away from the original poll...