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I grew up with a Commodore 64 and then an Amiga 500. What I remember is that I had few books and a lot of time to study them. Moreover, these were much simpler

I grew up with a Commodore 64 and then an Amiga 500. What I remember is that I had few books and a lot of time to study them. Moreover, these were much simpler computers than what we have today. Kids could understand a lot of the hardware and the assembler by themselves. On the other hand, It was harder to learn about algorithms and data structures. I didn't have access to the adequate instruction before college.

nurettin 9y ago
Instead of switching to Amiga, I decided to defend my C=64 against the Amiga kids in the block by being amazing at it. That gave me an advantage in my early programming career because it taught me the discipline of persistence. I knew that bugs were solveable and existing code wasn't daunting.