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As Doug McIlroy (inventor of pipes, diff) once said of punched cards, "It's the kind of thing you can be nostalgic about, but it wasn't actually fun." http://r
by rsc 16y ago
As Doug McIlroy (inventor of pipes, diff) once said of punched cards, "It's the kind of thing you can be nostalgic about, but it wasn't actually fun."
http://research.swtch.com/2008/04/computing-history-at-bell-labs.html http://research.swtch.com/2008/04/computing-history-at-bell-...
- HeyLaughingBoy 16y agoPunch cards are different: there's substantially delayed gratification. When you're a poor college student as I was, entering opcodes in a monitor/debugger you wrote in BASIC because you couldn't afford an assembler, then yes, assembly was fun. Fun, that is, until you had to hand-calculate negative jump offsets. Don't remember why, but for some reason I seem to think that the MC6809 I was running on made it difficult to do so.
- ghshephard 16y agoThere must have been something special about the 6809 - I recall doing my Digital Design course on that Chip. And yes, we didn't have an assembler, everything was entered via opcodes either. It was a very enjoyable experience for someone like me who wasn't a gear head, and got to play around with SB555s, NAND Gates, and lots, and lots of wirewrapping.