Reminds me of something I wrote a while back: http://blog.jgc.org/2009/08/just-give-me-simple-cpu-and-few-io.html http://blog.jgc.org/2009/08/just-give-me-simpl

Reminds me of something I wrote a while back: http://blog.jgc.org/2009/08/just-give-me-simple-cpu-and-few-io.html http://blog.jgc.org/2009/08/just-give-me-simple-cpu-and-few-... Those of us who started programming in that era had simple, relatively cheap, fully comprehendable computers in front of us.