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>Get out there and get yourself a real computer. Ironically, this is what hackers from the world of Big Iron (MIT LCS, MIT AI, and MIT MDL (much of which would
by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
>Get out there and get yourself a real computer.
Ironically, this is what hackers from the world of Big Iron (MIT LCS, MIT AI, and MIT MDL (much of which would later become Infocom's Imps and hackers), most famously) said to micro users at the time.
What an irony, that HN is full of kids who grew up on Micros, and yet the culture is a direct descendant of the LISP and UNIX lab cultures of old, whose hatred of micros was legendary.
- dsr_ 10y agoThese days, of course, a micro is what a CSAIL hacker of 1983 would have called an ultrasupercomputer. Even a Raspberry Pi has amazing storage, I/O and computing capabilities.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoObviously. But GP was talking about the micros of the 80s.
- fit2rule 10y agoAll the Big Iron hackers I used to know (and got my grommet wings rubbed by) are dead now. :(
- qwertyuiop924 10y ago...That's sad. I really don't know what else to say.
- fit2rule 10y agoWell, their computers are probably still out there, humming away. At least, in my mind they are.