26 Oct
2004
26 Oct
'04
01:52
Allen wrote:
BASIC from what I've read was what Young Hackers used too cut their first code. What about Assmebler? Was that used in school? I research OSs a lot and have seen old Macs using a Hex style syntax for something. I'd love to get my hands on some of these things. I think a 286 is about as old as I could use though, anything passed that and I don't think I'd have an OS that would work on it.
Outside of a high school Fortran class, my first programming experience was for the Datapoint 2200, which used the same instruction set, as the Intel 8008 (the first 8 bit) microprocessor. The 2200 was originally supposed to use the 8008, but it proved to be too slow, so Datapoint built their own CPU board instead.