Overall, I'd say the author fell in between the computer generations. After things started to look high-level, but where a lot of the interesting stuff was still very low-level.
One of the first things I learned to do in Commodore-64 basic was poke53280,0 to change screen background color. It was low level for everything, and there was no expectation of the address or the value "making sense" as such; it was just hardware control.
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AH came from Registers.Overall, I'd say the author fell in between the computer generations. After things started to look high-level, but where a lot of the interesting stuff was still very low-level.
One of the first things I learned to do in Commodore-64 basic was poke53280,0 to change screen background color. It was low level for everything, and there was no expectation of the address or the value "making sense" as such; it was just hardware control.