Yeah they are using computers. but computers are increasingly like appliances, and there is a huge gulf between clicking buttons in an UI and messing with code

Yeah they are using computers. but computers are increasingly like appliances, and there is a huge gulf between clicking buttons in an UI and messing with code in an editor. I remember way back, when I had to learn all this stuff about DOS and RAM just to get Ultima 7 to work on my computer. I had a friend who couldn't get sound to work correctly on his PC in StarCon2, so he soldered together his own sound card to get it to work. Nowdays you don't need to do that with modern computers and most of time you can't even do that even if you wanted to, because modern software and hardware are exponentially more complicated now.