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Re: [opensuse] "Real" programming [Was: [SLE] Red Hat's take:]
  • From: Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:51:38 +0100
  • Message-id: <ej2l8a$3b3$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Carlos E. R. wrote:

> But I remember buying the old pcmagazine and typing rows of
> hexadecimal as "data" lines for a basic program that would then create
> a tiny .com program like "ted.com".

Back in highschool we had a 16bit minicomputer with a grand 32K of
core-memory. Boot-strapping it meant entering instructions directly on
to the databus using 16 toggle-switches on the frontpanel. Now that's
real programming :-)


/Per Jessen, Zürich

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