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I knew it, man.
I learned MIPS assembly first, and it was like the registers were all a baseball team, with everyone trained and doing their part to try to get the job done.
When I learned about x86 assembly it was like the registers were a tiny band of wacky misfits who were going around in a van trying to solve mysteries.
Fantastic description!
Z-80 was much the same: djnz uses C as the loop counter (like the 8086 LOOP used CX iirc), H and L combine to make a 16-bit pointer...